Category: 7. Science

Outer space is having a moment. NASA’s Artemis 2 mission is about to take humans farther into space than we have ever gone; SpaceX is preparing to test the latest version of Starship, its interplanetary transport system; and just…

Maps sit quietly in classrooms, on news websites and inside phone screens. They look settled and precise, but the world they show is always slightly bent out of shape….

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Sargent is the Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor of Chemistry at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern Engineering, and director of the Paula M. Trienens Institute for…

Scientists are employing gravitational wave astronomy to probe the strong-field regime of gravity and test the predictions of general relativity. Dan Zhang, Chao Zhang, and Qiyuan Pan, alongside Guoyang Fu, Jian-Pin Wu et al., have…

Drug-resistant infections are becoming harder to treat, but testing new medicines in animals is often slow and expensive.

Scientists have now taken a major step forward by creating the first genetically modified wax moths – tiny larvae whose…

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination, it was thought this loss would not affect health.

But evidence has…