More than a third of women don’t know they are pregnant by six weeks

More than a third of women don’t know they are pregnant in time to meet the six-week abortion ban active in four U.S. states, a new study finds. About 37%…

We have the satellite data to show climate change is real. Now what?

Space programs are often concerned with what’s happening “out there” in the universe, a large portion of what space agencies like NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) do is…

How the world can set itself up for success at COP29 

Comment: A new climate finance goal is the top priority for the Baku summit – and there are signs of convergence on critical issues  Mukhtar Babayev is the COP29 President-Designate…

With the Chevron Doctrine overturned, the new ‘judicial veto’ of regulations will be bad for science and business

A colleague and I wrote about recent Supreme Court decisions that produced sweeping changes in how government regulation works in the United States— shifting power from regulatory agencies to the courts.…

Understaffed hospitals have higher rates of infection, study says

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Inadequate infection prevention and control staffing levels are associated with higher rates of health care-associated infections, according to a new study published in the American Journal…

Scientists long urged NASA to search for signs of life near Jupiter; now it’s happening

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In 2015, Bill Nye was on Marine One with President Obama. The television personality and science advocate was officially there for an Earth Day event, but…

Can advanced AI can solve visual puzzles and perform abstract reasoning?

6,000-year-old Neolithic long house uncovered in Sandomierz-Mokoszyn

Excavations in Sandomierz-Mokoszyn (Świętokrzyskie), Poland, have uncovered one of the earliest examples of a Neolithic “long house” in the Sandomierz Upland, dating back to 5300-4900 BC. The initial aim of…

Sacrificial burial confirms Scythians’ eastern origins

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of sacrificial funerary practices at the Early Iron Age burial mound of Tunnug 1 in Tuva, Siberia. This finding suggests that the horse-riding Scythian culture, primarily…

Electronic Tongue Uses AI to Detect Differences in Liquids

Summary: Researchers have developed an AI-powered “electronic tongue” capable of distinguishing subtle differences in liquids, such as milk freshness, soda types, and coffee blends. By analyzing sensor data through a…