Dr. Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester. A few years ago, on a flight, I was seated next to a man in his mid-20s. He looked at the astrobiology textbook I was reading ...
On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming woke up to check on his experiments investigating bacterial growth — and accidentally discovered the world's first antibiotic. The Scottish physicist and ...
On 22 September, the United States’ top public-health officials stood alongside President Donald Trump at the White House and delivered a message that went around the world in an instant. The US Food ...
If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...
The Trump Administration’s newly released Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Research and Development Budget Priorities and Cross-Cutting Actions memorandum represents a fundamental realignment of federal science ...
Public trust in science has declined since COVID — virologists need to unite around safety standards
Melanie Ott is director of the Gladstone Infectious Disease Institute in San Francisco, California, USA, and professor in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, ...
Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the understanding of nuclear fission. By Delthia Ricks Darleane C. Hoffman, a ...
Image: Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology Project. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of ...
While 1920s soda shops offered a plethora of sweet treats, nearby pharmacies served their own tinctures—like Radithor, certified radioactive water. Image: LMPC / Contributor / Getty Images Get the ...
A Princeton nuclear physicist. A mechanical engineer who helped NASA explore manufacturing in space. A US National Institutes of Health neurobiologist. Celebrated mathematicians. And over half a dozen ...
Emery Schubert receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Pause and think about it for a moment. For those unfamiliar, nothing will come to mind. But if you’ve heard the song of the same ...
As the world’s oceans undergo a dramatic rise in temperature, jellyfish blooms have become a regular occurrence, threatening both beachgoing tourists and coastal infrastructure around the world. But ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback