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…
A C.D.C. Committee Is Debating the Use of Thimerosal in Vaccines. Is It Safe?
A C.D.C. advisory committee will debate the use of thimerosal in flu shots this week.For decades, anti-vaccine groups have targeted…
Are Weighted Vests Worth the Hype?
Many influencers claim the vests are an essential tool for preserving bone density and muscle mass as you age. Here’s…
Womb lining test offers miscarriage hope to women
2 hours agoShareSavePhilippa RoxbyHealth ReporterShareSaveCharlie BeattieUK scientists say they have developed a test which can help identify women with an…
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…