Republicans Propose a New Way to Scrap Fuel Economy Rules: No Fines
For 50 years, automakers have had to increase the fuel efficiency of their vehicles or pay fines. The Republican megabill…
Here’s Another Use for Ice: Creating Secret Codes
Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice.Different…
How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions
The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of…
Grand Jury Indicts Russian Scientist on Smuggling Charges
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained in February after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the…
N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Grants
The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that questioned the Trump administration’s swift cuts to…
Fred Espenak, Astrophysicist Known as Mr. Eclipse, Dies at 73
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to…
Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log
Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.In 1947, against…
Did Baby Talk Give Rise to Language?
The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be…
Kennedy Accuses International Vaccine Agency of Ignoring Science
In a video address, the health secretary said the United States would no longer donate to Gavi, the vaccine agency.…
Trump’s OSHA Nominee Has a History With Heat and UPS Drivers
David Keeling would take over the workplace-safety agency just as it is considering rules to protect against extreme heat. His…