"Science" Blogs & Blog Posts

Bundle up and head outside in the wee hours of the morning this weekend to check out some shooting stars.  The Leonid meteor shower peaks early on Saturday morning. If estimates hold, people in rural areas with little light pollution should be a...

Researchers from New York University have found a way to produce fake fingerprints using artificial intelligence that could fool biometric scanners (or the human eye) into thinking they're the real deal. The DeepMasterPrints, as the researchers...

OK, it's not quite Dr. Crusher's dermal regenerator (seen above), but Arizona State University researchers have demonstrated a laser system for sealing wounds. The system involves a sealing paste -- made from silk protein mixed with gold nanorods --...

For the 18th time this year, SpaceX has successfully launched to space. After lifting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center along the Florida coast at 3:46 p.m. on Thursday, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket delivered a communications satellite, Es’hail-...

Sense About Science (previously) is a UK group that advocates for evidence-based policy; as part of that mission they give out the annual Maddox Prizes for people who brave political and social retaliation to infuse difficult public policy debates wi...

    Don’t tell Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore, but a claim of the oceans heating up has been rescinded. A well-known and inflammatory study citing the warming of the planet’s seas at a rapid rate due to global warming has been fo...

There's scientific truth to the saying that you never forget how to ride a bike. Even if you can't remember phone numbers, birthdays, or where the hell you parked your car, it's likely that even if you haven't been on a bicycle in decades, you can cl...