Science&technology

Wind ownership is up for grabs.As an unpaid intern at an energy company in England, Emilia Groupp spent two years creating wind ma ...

Cancer-busting particle beams have been caught in the act.Particle beams can provide a blast of destructive energy directly to tum ...

A pair of male lions that roamed Kenya more than a century ago gained notoriety as the “man-eaters of Tsavo.” To be sure, the big cats hu ...

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan asteroids, a ...

On a trip to Siberia in 2019, cognitive scientist Pablo Fernandez Velasco attended a raffle drawing with the region’s Evenki reindeer her ...

The words “herpes” and “spread” in the same sentence don’t typically spell good news. Unless, that is, you’re talking about a busybody ne ...

CHICAGO — Big news for fighting sisters: Scientists have found the sensors that signal the painful zing of a hair pull. And this pain mes ...

Dozens of fugitive stars were caught fleeing a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The swarm of speeding stars cou ...

Two newly discovered fossils are helping scientists wrap their heads around the anatomy of the largest arthropod of all time — a milliped ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon be on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live in the ocean th ...

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a lef ...

When the arm is on the lap or the side, a blood pressure reading can be erroneously high. But when the arm is supported and at heart heig ...

CHICAGO — Mice love to run. But not when they’re taking semaglutide, the diabetes and weight-loss drug sold as Ozempic and Wegovy. While ...

A red dwarf star known as Barnard’s star, which lies a mere six light-years from our solar system, has at least one — and possibly a hand ...