Category: 7. Science

NEW YORK — By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties.

The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human — a bedrock of creativity that’s led…

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Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth’s crust but in our planet’s mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth’s molten core. The new map will…

Predicting tumor progression is one of the major challenges in oncology. Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have discovered that neutrophils, a type of immune cell, undergo…

One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep within the ice.

A team of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Korea Polar Research Institute…

Satellites have tracked week-by-week changes in sea level for 33 years, and NASA has now opened the record.

That public stream exposes sudden bumps and dips that can worsen coastal flooding well before yearly averages show the change.

Weekly sea…

Many tiny specks of ancient water are locked within one of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorites ever to fall to Earth, a new study finds. The surprising discovery, achieved using a new form of “neutron scanning,” reveals more clues…

An artificial intelligence system learned new tasks more reliably when it generated its own internal self-talk during problem solving.

That added layer of private language reshaped how the system carried knowledge from one problem to the next,…

When AT2018hyz, aka “Jetty,” was first discovered, radio telescopes didn’t detect any signatures of an outflow emission of material within the first few months. According to Cendes, that’s true of some 80 percent…