Should artificial intelligence be used in science publishing?
Advances in automation technology mean that robots and artificial intelligence programs are capable of performing an ever-greater share of our work, including collecting and analyzing data. For many...
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Immigration raid alerts are coming soon to your smartphone
No abra la puerta! Don't open the door!That may be the No. 1 piece of advice activists have for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, many of whom fear possible...
View ArticleLydia the Great White shark 'just kept swimming' for 36,000 miles
It’s Lydia’s “Gotcha Day!”Four years ago to the day, the Great White was hauled onto a boat off the coast of Florida and fitted with a satellite tag.Since then, scientists have been tracking her every...
View ArticleHow do you run a government agency you have spent so much time suing?
Scott Pruitt, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, has sued the agency more than a dozen times. What does that mean for the future of the EPA and for environmental protections in the...
View ArticleScientists are trying to make the perfect battery
Lithium-ion batteries power everything from our laptops to phones to electric vehicles, but they’re far from perfect. In fact, they were the culprits behind Samsung’s recent exploding Galaxy Note 7...
View ArticleHow tech companies are trying to combat trafficking
Sex trafficking and human slavery are certainly nothing new, but the internet has created a lawless space for predators to buy and sell people. Today, more than 150,000 escort ads are posted in the US...
View ArticleMr. President, do you plan on sending Americans to space?
Over President Donald Trump's first 100 days, we're asking him questions that our audience wants answers to. Join the project by tweeting this question to @realDonaldTrump with the hashtag...
View ArticleThe GOP Congress killed Obama's Stream Protection Rule. Now what?
In one of its first acts, the Republican-controlled Congress overturned the Department of the Interior’s recent Stream Protection Rule. Coal companies are thrilled about the change, but some mining...
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Malta's famous Azure Window has collapsed into the sea
Gale force winds and huge waves on Wednesday destroyed the iconic Azure Window, a coastal rock formation on the Maltese island of Gozo.The Azure Window, believed to have formed naturally in the...
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Every passport tells a story
The smudged travel stamps in passports are a record of international border crossings that went smoothly or perhaps not so smoothly. The photos are freeze frames of the travelers who made those...
View ArticleIn the future, people might really wear their emotions on their sleeves
Picking up on subtle cues in our conversations with other people is tough — and it can be even trickier for people with social anxiety or Asperger’s syndrome.Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute...
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Myanmar's Inle Lake is just one small body of water, but this man is...
In the early morning hours on Myanmar’s Inle Lake the quiet is broken by small tourist boats rumbling across the water to catch some of the lake’s famous performing fishermen.The motorboats slow to an...
View ArticleHere’s why new EPA chief Pruitt is ‘absolutely wrong’ about CO2 and climate...
Not long ago, this would’ve been a remarkable statement from the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency:“There's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact [of carbon dioxide], so I...
View ArticleMining nature for the next groundbreaking antibiotic
It’s been just shy of 90 years since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in his London lab, but as the World Health Organization recently cautioned, we’re already headed for a “post-antibiotic...
View ArticleWhat lessons can Canada offer the US on the suppression of scientific research?
When President Donald Trump came into office in January, staff at several government agencies were told not to send out news releases or to communicate by social media, and most mentions of climate...
View ArticleThe very real science behind 'The Expanse'
Imagine for a moment that we’ve colonized Mars and the asteroid belt. We mine the asteroid belt for ice and minerals and live — not always peacefully — in different factions, split up across the solar...
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Soviet-era nuclear testing is still making people sick in Kazakhstan
The place where the first Soviet atomic bomb was dropped looks like a small natural pond.The bumpy roads that lead to it course through stark, but picturesque, countryside. The river Irtysh, which...
View ArticleThis new material for a breakthrough temperature sensor comes from a...
It may look like shrink wrap, but a film recently developed by a team of researchers has a secret power: It’s incredibly sensitive to temperature.“Just to give you a sense, it … can detect, for...
View ArticleSix years later, Japan is still struggling to clean up Fukushima
Six years after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown, officials are still seeking ways to deal with the huge amount of hazardous waste being generated at the nuclear power plant.Tokyo-based journalist James...
View ArticleThere’s a buzz in the air at SXSW — but it’s not just about the technology
Every March in Austin, Texas, an explosion of technology entrepreneurs show off their latest ideas and hobnob at parties, tweeting, snapping and gramming epic stories about who they met and what they...
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