Science & Technology

The passage of time was altered for many people during the COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from difficulty in keeping track of days of the week to feeling that the hours themselves rushed by or slowed down. In prior work, these distortions have been associa…

Nitrous oxide may be much less abundant in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, but as a greenhouse gas, it’s a doozy. With a potency 300 times greater than CO2, nitrous oxide’s warming potential, especially via agriculture, demands attention. Researche…

Engineering and medical researchers are developing a digital health system approach designed to enhance back-pain clinical decision-making. After completing a series of studies testing precise, objective measurements they’ve perfected in the lab, the t…

A research team has demonstrated efficient spin transport in an antiferromagnet/ferromagnet hybrid that remains robust up to room temperature.

Insecure income associated with nontraditional employment known as ‘gig work’ has a negative impact on the overall health and well-being of U.S. workers, according to a new article.

More than 60 engineers and scientists are gathering at Southwest Research Institute Aug. 23-24 to kick off the launch vehicle collaboration for NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission. PUNCH, which will study the inceptio…

Volunteers spent thousands of hours recording trash on beaches in Washington and Oregon to show that certain beaches, and certain areas of a single beach, are ‘sticky zones’ that accumulate litter. Finding patterns for where litter lands could help to …

People who use therapeutic cannabis are more likely to also use nicotine products than the general population, according to a new study.

Labels alerting customers that products contain ingredients from genetically engineered plants may reduce sales, at least in the short term, according to agricultural economists.

Lymph nodes trigger very different immune responses — depending on which body tissue they are connected to. Special T cells are responsible for this newly discovered relation.

Growing in both green and ‘gray’ spaces in cities, along with the variability of growing methods, means some city crops — like cucumbers, potatoes and lettuces — yield at least twice as much as their rural counterparts. That’s good news for cities lo…

Just after the U.S. Congress passed the nation’s most substantial legislation aimed at battling climate change, a new study shows that the average American badly underestimates how much their fellow citizens support substantive climate policy. While 66…

Research has established that there are traces of Neandertal DNA in the genome of modern humans. Now an exploratory study that assessed the facial structure of prehistoric skulls is offering new insights, and supports the hypothesis that much of this i…

A group of international scientists is rigorously and systematically evaluating if and how the stratosphere could be made just a little bit ‘brighter,’ reflecting more incoming sunlight so that an ever-warming Earth maintains its cool.

Ocean trash and overflowing landfills have drawn widespread attention to the plastic waste that we put into our environment. In response, communities around the world work hard to reduce, reuse, and recycle. But what does it mean for something to be re…

Engineers use techniques from Origami to design spacecraft components, medical robots and antenna arrays. Researchers have developed a system to explain the rules that govern some of these key structures.

To investigate whether paleoclimatic temperature shifts are correlated with body size changes, biologists decided to test this hypothesis using tetraodontiform fishes as a model group.

After a comprehensive study of plants across the United States, researchers have arrived at the unexpected conclusion that plants able to fix atmospheric nitrogen are most diverse in arid regions of the country. This finding runs counter to the prevail…

Abundant internet claims about the acoustic power of the Saturn V suggest that it melted concrete and lit grass on fire over a mile away, but such ideas are undeniably false. Researchers used a physics-based model to estimate the rocket’s acoustic leve…

Researchers have improved human small intestinal organoids — miniature versions of the small intestine. This will help them to better study the functioning of the small intestine during health and disease. Specifically, the researchers managed to deve…