Diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace are under attack—here's why they matter more than ever
As International Women's Day approaches, we must redouble our efforts to champion social justice and the principles of ...
Physicists achieve record-breaking electron beam power and current
A team of physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in Menlo Park, California, generated the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beams ever produced. The team has published ...
Two lunar landings in a week for NASA's private moon fleet
More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to the lunar surface, when the ...
Thousands flee after Japan's biggest wildfire in decades
Thousands of people evacuated from parts of northern Japan as the country's largest wildfire in three decades raged unabated ...
Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown with a special delivery for NASA
A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in ...
'He knows how to make sure that there is no evidence': When your domestic violence abuser is a police officer
People experiencing domestic violence are often urged to report their abuse to the police. But what if your abuser is a ...
AMOC unlikely to collapse this century despite climate change pressures, model suggests
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—a major transporter of heat to the north Atlantic and northwestern ...
A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away
The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 ...
What are the chances an asteroid will impact Earth in 2032?
February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...
Research taps into sugary secrets of plant nectar to bite back against mosquito-spread disease
In a study published in Scientific Reports, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, working with partners in Africa ...
New findings date Los Chocoyos supereruption to 79,500 years ago, and show Earth bounced back within decades
An international team of Earth and life scientists, hydrologists, chemists, and physicists, has found evidence showing that ...
Lead-208's doubly magic nucleus defies expectations with surprising shape properties
In a surprising turn of events, an international team of scientists has found that lead-208 (208Pb), the heaviest known ...