Was Today’s Earthquake Connected to the Solar Eclipse?
With a total solar eclipse set to pass through the United States on Monday, it is easy to imagine a…
Up to a Trillion Cicadas Are About to Emerge in the U.S.
Two periodical cicada broods are appearing in a 16-state area in the Midwest and Southeast for the first time in…
A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong
On Thursday, astronomers who are conducting what they describe as the biggest and most precise survey yet of the history…
Another A.I. Target: Food Waste
Artificial intelligence is peering into restaurant garbage pails and crunching grocery-store data to try to figure out how to send…
Anxiety, Bedtime and Mating: How Animals May React to the Eclipse
When the total solar eclipse happens on Monday, pets, farm and zoo animals might act strange. Researchers can’t wait to…
NASA Picks 3 Companies to Help Astronauts Drive Around the Moon
The agency’s future moon buggies will reach speeds of 9.3 miles per hour and will be capable of self-driving.NASA will…
Patient With Transplanted Pig Kidney Leaves Hospital for Home
Richard Slayman, 62, is the first patient to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Two weeks after the…
How a Snake Uses the Sense of Smell
These reptiles and their social networks are understudied, according to researchers applying scents to different snakes to assess their behavior.Say…
To Curb Bird Flu, Taxpayers Pay Millions to Kill Poultry. Is It Needed?
Big poultry farms have received millions of dollars for their losses. Animal welfare groups contend that aid reinforces inhumane cullings…
The Technique Reshaping Organ Transplantation
Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible.…