2025-08-02

NASA's latest mission to the ISS features a bacterial experiment

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, bu [...]

2025-08-01

The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children

Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. [...]

2025-08-01

Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

Other July stories: Solving a 150-year-old fossil mystery and the physics of tacking a sailboat. [...]

2025-08-01

Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power

The grid is becoming cleaner thanks to projects that have been in the works for years. [...]

2025-08-01

AC or DC: Which Is Better?

Your gadgets run on direct current, but the electricity in your home is alternating current. What’s up with that? [...]

2025-08-01

Tech policy could be smarter and less partisan if Congress hadn’t shut down this innovative program

For years, the Office of Technology Assessment helped Congress see around corners on science and tech. Its 1995 shutdown left lawmakers flying blind. [...]

2025-08-01

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Forgotten AI Summit

Long before ChatGPT, a group of AI luminaries gathered on an island to discuss the future of artificial intelligence. Their funder ultimately cast a shadow on all who attended. [...]

2025-07-31

Measles Cases Are Soaring in Mexico

The disease has claimed the lives of 12 people in the country this year, with the virus continuing to spread rapidly. [...]

2025-07-31

States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines

As federal vaccine policy shifts under US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lawmakers are looking to give state-level public health officials authority to ignore federal recommendations. [...]