Motion data is well known for improving athletic performance and rehab. Thanks to AI, it’s also turning motion into another vital sign for general health.
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A pediatric dentist and an anthropologist explain how baby teeth and adult teeth help humans chomp their food over a long lifespan.
James Dewey Watson is best known for his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the structure of DNA. Controversy around who should be credited highlights the challenges of scientific collaboration.
ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.
Breweries nationwide create waste at several stages of the beer-making process. Repurposing parts of this waste could improve antibacterial drugs.
How people talk about data privacy can overcome – or reinforce – their skepticism that things can change.
Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.
Cylinder seals were intimately tied to their owner, showcasing their identity, beliefs and social status.
The Trump administration is not just reforming the US research system – it is trying to remake it.
Many plants and flowers have symbolic meanings, and their presence on a grave may reflect something unique about the deceased.
The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration on few cloud providers is changing that.
Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.
One similarity between people who seek to reinforce gender binary and those who seek to expand beyond it is the idea that everyone has a gender.
Whichever side of an issue you’re on, it’s likely that at the root of what gets you fired up are deep, fundamental human fears about mortality, moral responsibility and meaning.
Tardigrades make a unique damage suppressor protein that researchers are working to harness for medicine, space, agriculture, data storage and more.
The US doesn’t currently have much ability to monitor what’s going on in the space around the Moon. An effort by the Air Force Research Laboratory could help.
The Russian military claims to have flown its Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile 8,700 miles over 15 hours.
Paleoanthropologists have thought that Homo habilis was the first stone-tool maker and meat-eater in our genus. But new research suggests H. habilis might not have been so advanced.
A century-old French archaeological scandal was sensationalized in the press at the time – but responsible scientists also relied on careful reporting to get the truth out.
From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped human history.
Workplace productivity and educational challenges get the headlines, but it turns out that ChatGPT and its ilk are more likely to be used for household tasks.
3D woven baskets are geometrically sophisticated, with some incredible properties that engineers can use to design materials and technology.
US farmers grow over 1 billion pounds of pumpkin each year.
A clay layer one-hundredth of an inch thick preserves the fleshy details of dinosaurs buried suddenly in east-central Wyoming.
This lens modeled on biological eyes could make it easier to give soft machines and bio-safe tools the ability to see.