07/30/2025 Aaron Aupperlee
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science will contribute to a newly launched National Science Foundation (NSF) AI Research…
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Dinosaur teeth reveal some were picky eaters
Some dinosaurs were fussy eaters.
Certain herbivorous dinosaurs preferred specific parts of plants, challenging long-standing assumptions about their diets, a study of fossilized dino teeth shows. The analysis of calcium isotopes in…
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Accidental lab discovery reveals gold’s secret chemistry
Serendipitously and for the first time, an international research team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory formed solid binary gold hydride, a compound made exclusively of gold and hydrogen…
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Tiny gold “super atoms” could spark a quantum revolution
The efficiency of quantum computers, sensors and other applications often relies on the properties of electrons, including how they are spinning. One of the most accurate systems for high performance quantum applications relies on tapping into…
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The nuclear clock that could finally unmask dark matter
For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter – an invisible substance believed to make up about 80 percent of the universe’s mass and needed to explain a variety of physical phenomena. Numerous methods…
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See how aerosols loft through Earth’s sky
Aerosols, small particles in the atmosphere like salt and dust, may offset a third of human-caused climate warming, though their influence is fading.
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When Plato Flirted with Tyranny
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Few figures loom larger over Western culture than Plato, whose The Republic has…
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Opening New Doors for Household Robotics
A new system helps robots adapt to articulated objects like microwaves, drawers and cabinets
08/07/2025 Mallory Lindahl
Robots may one day work alongside us in our homes, helping with chores like unloading the dishwasher….
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This ancient Siberian ice mummy had a talented tattooist
Some tattoos do age well.
More than two millennia ago, a woman sat down for a couple of inking sessions. After, she rocked some sick sleeves — her arms etched with intense hunting scenes of prowling leopards, lanky stags and even a…
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7 stone tools might rewrite the timeline of hominid migration in Indonesia
Stone tools unearthed on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that ancient human relatives arrived there between about 1 million and 1.5 million years ago — far earlier than previously known.
The discovery, described August 6…
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