Science & Technology

Turns out, dazzle camouflage wasn’t the main reason enemy subs were misled in World War I, it was a natural visual illusion called the “horizon effect.” Aston University scientists revisited …

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe once again dived deep into the Sun’s atmosphere, matching its own record for speed and proximity. Racing at 430,000 mph and skimming just 3.8 million miles …

Researchers have solved a long-standing problem in topology by helping classify four-dimensional shapes (4-manifolds) that allow certain types of deformations, known as quasiregular mappings, from Euclidean space. Susanna Heikkilä has …

Illicit cannabis seized in Arizona and California contains dangerously high levels of Fusarium mycotoxins, according to a new Arizona State University study. Around 16% of tested samples were contaminated, some …

Columbia engineers have created a powerful 3D photonic-electronic chip that could overcome one of AI’s biggest hardware challenges: energy-hungry data transfer. Their design combines light-based data movement with CMOS electronics …

A deadly fungal epidemic in Brazil is evolving fast: pollution, cats, and genetics may be fueling its unstoppable spread. Brazil is facing the world’s largest and most persistent sporotrichosis epidemic, …

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the asteroid belt. By building a global network of sky …

Australian scientists have discovered an ancient freshwater fish fossil with its stomach contents remarkably preserved. In a groundbreaking discovery, Australian scientists have described a new species of fossilized freshwater fish, …

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and vulnerable to predators. Paranthropus robustus was a prehistoric hominin species that lived …

H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to humans. Scientists at UNC Charlotte and MIT used high-performance computational modeling to analyze …