Science and Technolgy blog
Sweeping layoffs of federal employees have struck the program responsible for controlling the invasive sea lamprey that threatens fish across the Great Lakes, the earth’s largest freshwater ecosystem. Among hundreds of US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employees terminated this…
A little over 20 years ago, Valve was getting ready to release a new Half-Life game. At the same time, the company was trying to push Steam as a new option for players to download and update games over the…
Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses the challenges communities face after the January wildfires in Los Angeles.
Location, location Scientists launched a rocket from Svalbard, Norway, that measured Earth’s ambipolar electric field for the first time. The weak field may control the shape and evolution of the upper atmosphere and may contribute to Earth’s habitability, astronomy writer…
A 2,800-year-old fortified wall has been found in a narrow mountain pass in China.
New research suggests that the way older adults drive could offer subtle clues about their mental health, potentially paving the way for innovative screening tools for depression. Two related studies, the latest published in the journal npj Digital Medicine, investigated…
Why do we laugh when tickled but are unable to tickle ourselves? Neuroscience has the answer.
March 1, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
SpaceX plans to launch the eighth full-scale test flight of its enormous Starship rocket as soon as Monday after receiving regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. The test flight will be a repeat of what SpaceX hoped to achieve…
Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite was used to compromise the phone of a Serbian student who had been critical of that country’s government. The human rights organization first…
