Climate change is transforming dust storms—a natural phenomenon in the Middle East—into a more frequent and widespread threat to health...
To avoid catastrophic climate impacts, excessive carbon emissions must be addressed. At this point, cutting emissions isn’t enough. Direct air...
Bartosz Regula from the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing and Ludovico Lami from the University of Amsterdam have shown, through...
Play is widespread, but far from ubiquitous, across the animal kingdom. Especially common in mammals, play is also known to...
Over the course of its elliptical orbit, the moon Enceladus is squeezed unevenly by Saturn’s gravitational pull and deforms from...
Gravity is part of our everyday life. Still, the gravitational force remains mysterious: to this day we do not understand...
If all goes well late on May 6, 2024, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will blast off into...
Computer simulations by astronomers support the idea that dark matter—matter that no one has yet directly detected but which many...
Researchers have discovered the missing piece of the puzzle behind a rare opening in the sea ice around Antarctica, which...
Northwestern University engineers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm designed specifically for smart robotics. By helping robots rapidly...
A new study by Northwestern University researchers and coworkers explains a puzzling problem with maps of future earthquake shaking used...
The first calls that Dr. Barb Petersen received in early March were from dairy owners worried about crows, pigeons and...