At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

It is a new era of app creation that is sometimes called micro apps, personal apps, or fleeting apps because they are ...

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

Plastic pollution is not just in oceans and soil. Scientists have now found enormous amounts of microscopic plastic floating ...

During a heated episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan openly challenged Candace Owens over her dismissal of climate change. As Owens argued the issue was exaggerated and politically motivated ...

If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the Environmental Protection Agency for answers. The government agency purged basic facts about ...

At a low-key talk for a local professional society in 1964, computer scientist and chemist Gordon Moore laid out a prediction that would define the world of technology for more than 50 years. In the ...

Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty? In recent years, scientists have proposed a few contenders for a sixth taste that ...

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that ...

A stunning image of a rice weevil on a single grain of rice has won the 2025 Nikon Small World photomicrography contest, yielding valuable insight into the structure and behavior of—and providing a ...