A Facebook feature allowed people on the internet to look up Facebook users by their phone number or email address, and “scrape” data off of their public profile. The feature was ...
It could help large institutions reach new insights into disease—but also make it harder for small labs with original ideas to compete for grants. The National Institutes of Health this spr...
ANKARA, Turkey — The leaders of Russia and Turkey on Tuesday launched the start of construction for Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, as ties between the two nations deepen. Russian Pre...
Intel on Tuesday unveiled its latest laptop processors based on the Coffee Lake platform, most notably bringing its high-performance Core i9 line to laptops for the first time in the same thermal prof...
Men’s scientific stories and receive greater coverage in media, while women’s contributions progress are notoriously absent . Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, but her full s...
Two new studies support this correlation. Credit: Getty Images As more states legalize medical and recreational marijuana, doctors may be replacing opioid prescriptions with suggestions to visi...
The U.S. Northeast may be more geologically active than thought. For the past 200 million years New England has been a place without intense geologic change. With few exceptions, there have been...
The space station disintegrated in the atmosphere over the South Pacific China’s prototype space station, whose name translates as “Heavenly Palace 1,” met a fiery end in Earth’s atmosph...
What is insulin and how do our bodies use it? Credit: David Hay Jones Getty Images The prevalence of diabetes, a condition related to the body’s inability to appropriately produce a hormone cal...
The Quantum Shorts competition invited stories incorporating the laws of quantum mechanics The mind-bending possibilities of quantum physics lend themselves to philosophy—to wondering about the t...