It’s sometimes said you ought to look backward before you can look forward. This week, we’re showing how one very specific moment in American history has had knock-on effects for scientific ...

This fall, students at North High School will get to speak with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Fifteen years after a tsunami caused the Fukushima nuclear accident, only bears, raccoons and boar are seen on the streets. But the authorities and some locals want people to move back ...

There are things that only an employee can tell you about their profession. Be it engineering, medicine or even the movie industry, we think we know all the secrets, but sometimes everyday realities ...

Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured ...

Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, ...

Drilling into hard rock has always been limited by mechanical tools. Radiation-based drilling changes that by using energy instead of physical contact. This method can fracture and weaken rock at ...

Radiation therapy is often described in clinical terms, but rarely through the eyes of the person lying on the treatment table. After decades of working with medical radiation professionally, I found ...

A dense blob of 'radiation fog' has moved in over the Southeast, causing dangerous travel conditions for up to five million people. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a dense fog advisory ...

After the Big Bang, the Universe entered a long, dark period before the first stars formed. During this era, hydrogen emitted a faint radio signal that still echoes today. New simulations show this ...

Eric Topol was worried when he first saw images of the lungs of people who had been infected with COVID-19 aboard the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship that was quarantined off the coast of Japan in the ...

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