The pandemic forced science museums to reach out to their communities, and some built a wider following.
"My Remarkable Journey" gives the backstory of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, the central character of the 2016 film "Hidden Figures."
Shape-shifting pasta could potentially cut down on packaging and save space during shipping.
Cave excavation of a youngster’s grave pushes back the date of the first human burial identified in the continent by at least a few thousand years.
The potentially helpful effect of the BCG vaccine on type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases is beginning to make sense.
The country’s annual population growth rate, mostly stable since the 1970s, is now the lowest it’s been in over a century.
The first comprehensive analysis of the celestial specks indicates they are clusters of infant stars of various masses.
X-ray CT scans of a box of mixed nuts explain the orientations that let large, oblong Brazil nuts rise to the top.
At 0.28 trillionths of a millimeter thick, the shell of neutrons around the nucleus of an atom of lead is a bit thicker than physicists had predicted.
NASA’s NICER X-ray telescope finds that the most massive known neutron star has an unexpectedly large diameter.
A newly discovered group of single-celled archaea break down decaying plants without adding the greenhouse gas methane to the atmosphere.
Fourteen celestial sources of gamma rays provide preliminary hints of matter colliding with “antistars” in our galaxy.
A clock made from a thin, wiggling membrane releases more entropy, or disorder, as it becomes more accurate.
Analysis of a wave in one of Saturn’s rings has revealed that the planet’s core is diffuse and bloated with lots of hydrogen and helium.
Airplane observations show that thunderstorms can directly generate vast quantities of atmosphere-cleansing chemicals called oxidants.
Dozens of animals and even some plants in the American Southwest take advantage of water-filled holes dug by these nonnative equids.
Applying the antibiotic amoxicillin to infected lesions halted tissue death in corals for at least 11 months after treatment.
The fastest punches in the animal kingdom probably belong to mantis shrimp, who begin unleashing these attacks just over a week after hatching.