The Space Development Agency’s experimental satellite program just kicked off with a record-fast shift into full operating mode, offering what officials see as a promising start for an ambitious military...
The new Defense Department budget request seeks big investments in artificial intelligence and autonomy: Large and small undersea drones, flying drone swarms, flying wingmen for both the Navy and the...
MARSEILLE, France — The first American academics fleeing Donald Trump’s America for France have arrived. Aix-Marseille University last week introduced eight U.S.-based researchers who were in the final stage of...
LONDON — Ideally, science and politics — like oil and water — should not mix. But in the world’s premier climate science institution, oil is fighting to gain the upper...
For years, scientists were puzzled by a strange part of the ocean just south of Greenland that didn’t behave like the rest of the planet. While ocean temperatures across the...
Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a new kind of material that doesn’t just sit there. It actually lives, grows, and pulls carbon dioxide straight from the air. This living...
Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in mid-June — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a moment, it outshined everything else in the sky....
Dog people tend to be pretty confident they know what’s going on with their animals. When we put out a call on the Explain It to Me podcast for dog...
Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on the planet and home to a vast array of species. But in recent years it has been hit by...
Debate put to rest? It’s not yet clear whether Nuvvuagittuq outcrops will become widely accepted as Earth’s oldest rocks, according to other scientists who were not involved with the research....
