We’re very excited to announce our first guests for this year’s TC Sessions: Robotics. TechCrunch is returning to the U.C. Berkeley campus again this April for another full-day session delving into all aspects of robotics. As we mark our third

A new study suggests that marijuana use can not only lower sperm count, but also affect sperm DNA. Read more...More about Marijuana, Cannabis, Sperm, Science, and Health

The Large Hadron Collider has produced a great deal of incredible science, most famously the Higgs Boson — but physicists at CERN, the international organization behind the LHC, are already looking forward to the next model. And the proposed Future

A new study is making waves in the worlds of tech and psychology by questioning the basis of thousands of papers and analyses with conflicting conclusions on the effect of screen time on well-being. The researchers claim is that the science doesn’t

On Jan. 2, China stunned the world by landing its Chang'e-4 probe on the far side of the moon. Now, you can watch its descent onto the lunar surface, with footage released by the China National Space Administration on Friday.  The video shows the

We in the West love our apocalyptic science fiction, in which cartoonishly evil authorities ruthlessly oppress all who so much as wonder about its absolute power, enforced via ubiquitous surveillance technology. Think The Hunger Games, Blade Runner 2049,

Romero Rodrigues Contributor Romero Rodrigues is a managing partner at Redpoint eVentures, the Brazilian-focused arm of the Silicon Valley venture firm Redpoint. More posts by this contributor Brazil’s fin

The Air Force selected 519 active-duty officers for promotion to colonel, lieutenant colonel and major during the calendar year 18A Medical and Dental Corps central selection boards and 55 to lieutenant colonel during the calendar year 18C Biomedical Scie

The world’s highest-valued artificial intelligence startup SenseTime has set foot in Japan. The Beijing-based firm announced on Friday that it just opened a self-driving facility in Joso, a historic city 50 kilometers away from Tokyo where it plans

Elon Musk just gave us a look at the first test version of SpaceX's Starship. Formerly known as the BFR, Musk announced on Thursday that the spaceflight company's test version of the Starship, dubbed the "hopper," has just finished being assembled at Spac

News ReleaseThursday, January 17, 2019 NIH-funded study sheds new light on brain circuits related to affective and social dysfunction. A new study in rodents has shown that the brain’s cerebellum—known to play a role in motor coordination&m

WATCH: Like 'butter on your pan': City crews mastering the science of salt brine treatment for roadsA Fargo Public Works truck spreads salt brine Tuesday, Jan. 15, on Seventh Avenue North to keep snow and ice from adhering to the surface. Michael Vosburg

A proposed 100-kilometre particle accelerator under Geneva has joined an international quest to develop the successor to the Large Hadron Collider to help unlock humankind's knowledge of matter.

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News ReleaseWednesday, January 16, 2019 Findings set stage for first clinical trial of stem cell-based therapeutic approach for AMD. Using a novel patient-specific stem cell-based therapy, researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) prevented blind

On January 8th Republican Congressman Michael T. McCaul of Texas introduced H.R. 336, reported to be a companion bill to S.1, the Senate bill that would cement a $38 billion package to Israel, combat the movement to pressure Israel to

Media Roots — In the first installment of this multi-part series, Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin debunks the notion that Trump is an anti-interventionist president, outlining his first two years of aggressive foreign policy that h

Media AdvisoryMonday, January 14, 2019 NIH-funded study links gut microbiome to food allergy. WHAT: New research suggests that the gut microbiome may help prevent the development of cow’s milk allergy. Scientists at the University of Chica

On Jan. 2, China stunned the world by landing its Chang'e-4 probe on the far side of the moon. Now, you can watch its descent onto the lunar surface, with footage released by the China National Space Administration on Friday.  The video shows the

After a banner year of successful rocket launches for Elon Musk's private space flight company SpaceX, so far 2019 sees the company coming back down to Earth hard and fast. The company announced on Friday that it would be laying off 10 percent of its work

On an especially cold Friday morning when the temperature in Crookston approached 20 below zero, fourth-graders at Highland School bundled up and headed outside for a science lesson on what happens to boiling water when it’s exposed in rapid fashion

    The Western Minnesota Regional Science Fair will take place on the campus of the University of Minnesota Crookston on Saturday, February 9, in the Wellness Center.     The public is invited to view the exhibits from 10:45

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Kings and Queens of history have been a confusing bunch, haven’t they? They’ve been respectable, knowledgeable, worthy leaders, and they’ve been shockingly unfit-to-rule disasters. They’v

As midnight neared, we bobbed around in the black Caribbean Sea aboard a rubber dinghy. There were five of us out there, peering down into the undulating, forever darkness. We scoured the water for signs of a telltale light, coming from below. A yellow su

Autism spokesperson, author and Colorado State University animal science professor Dr. Temple Grandin wrapped up her two-day visit to UMN Crookston Tuesday with breakfast, followed by a halter-breaking session she conducted with UM

Having a Human Resources officer to assist when things get a little messy at the work place can be the difference between settling a dispute and ending up in court. For employers and employees alike, knowing that there is a authority that can be a mediato

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Autism pioneer, author and professor stays for breakfast Tuesday and conducts a halter-breaking session with UMN Crookston animal science students

    Erin Johnson is the newest shareholder of Widseth Smith Nolting.    Johnson graduated from the University of North Dakota with a Bachelor of Science in business administration, majoring in finance and is a licensed Certif

A federal health official says a nationwide injunction on new Trump administration rules that allowed more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control will force Americans to "violate" their consciences

Wadena PJThe North Dakota State College of Science has named 367 students to its fall semester 2018 President's Honor List. The Honor List recognizes students who have achieved grade point averages...

Researchers have taught a robot dog to overcome one of the toughest challenges for a four-legged droid: how to get back up after a fall. In a paper published in the Science Robotics journal, its Swiss creators describe how they trained a neural netwo...

TSA officials say the rate of airport screeners missing work during the partial government shutdown has stabilized just days before a three-day holiday weekend that is likely to bring bigger airport crowds. The Transportation Security Administration said

Food halls — multi-tenant developments that feature a variety of restaurant and sometimes retail vendors — are hot right now, with several popping up in the metro, including four in the past two years. We’ve made the rounds and found Twi

Hunting for a job that pays nothing for the foreseeable future? The TSA wants you. The Transportation Security Administration is hosting a fast-track hiring event Saturday with a goal of hiring “many” agents to screen for toothpaste and other

The Jan. 15 drop of the long-awaited Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer was both a blessing and a curse for Marvel fans. While we finally got to see what the Homecoming sequel would entail for our friendly neighborhood Spidey, we also got a jarring reminde

On January 8th Republican Congressman Michael T. McCaul of Texas introduced H.R. 336, reported to be a companion bill to S.1, the Senate bill that would cement a $38 billion package to Israel, combat the movement to pressure Israel to

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Jesse Hopkins is selling nostalgia in a can. In a small warehouse in Arden Hills, he and three co-owners have taken the craft brewery model and tweaked it for vintage pop. Northern Soda Co., which opened in July, is set up like the old Pop Shoppe stores,

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and TODD RICHMOND GORDON, Wis. (AP) — The man suspected of kidnapping a Wisconsin teenager and killing her parents with a shotgun nearly three months ago appears to have led an unremarkable existence until that fateful night, blen

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A proposed 100-kilometre particle accelerator under Geneva has joined an international quest to develop the successor to the Large Hadron Collider to help unlock humankind's knowledge of matter.

The Large Hadron Collider has produced a great deal of incredible science, most famously the Higgs Boson — but physicists at CERN, the international organization behind the LHC, are already looking forward to the next model. And the proposed Future

On January 8th Republican Congressman Michael T. McCaul of Texas introduced H.R. 336, reported to be a companion bill to S.1, the Senate bill that would cement a $38 billion package to Israel, combat the movement to pressure Israel to

A new study is making waves in the worlds of tech and psychology by questioning the basis of thousands of paper and analyses with conflicting conclusions on the effect of screen time on well-being. The researchers claim is that the science doesn’t a

Media Roots — In the first installment of this multi-part series, Trump Expanding the Empire, Abby Martin debunks the notion that Trump is an anti-interventionist president, outlining his first two years of aggressive foreign policy that h

Henrique Dubugras Contributor Share on Twitter Henrique Dubugras is the founder Brex, the billion-dollar corporate credit provider for startups. When I hear protesters shout, “Immigrants are we

Stuff You Should Know, the explainer podcast hosted Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant (pictured on the left above), has now surpassed one billion total downloads. The podcast is published by How Stuff Works/Stuff Media, which was acquired by iHeartMedia last fa

We like to think of ourselves as nerds here at TechCrunch, which is why we’re bring you this. During the government shutdown, security experts noticed several federal websites were throwing back browser errors because the TLS certificate, which ligh

We're almost to the (long) weekend! Hang in there, just one more day until some much needed time off of work. But in the meantime, take a look at the best deals we found on Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Macy's. So what did we find? We rounded up deals on

As midnight neared, we bobbed around in the black Caribbean Sea aboard a rubber dinghy. There were five of us out there, peering down into the undulating, forever darkness. We scoured the water for signs of a telltale light, coming from below. A yellow su

I'm all about quick fixes that make workouts more effective, and if there's a trick to make a workout seem easier, I've probably tried that too. Those things don't usually come packaged together, but science may have hit the jackpot, and it has nothing t

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Robots are amazing things, but outside of their specific domains they are incredibly limited. So flexibility — not physical, but mental — is a constant area of research. A trio of new robotic setups demonstrate ways they can evolve to accommod

A triple whammy of disease, climate change, and deforestation has threatened around 60 percent of the planet's wild coffee species. While this hasn't yet imperiled the world's coffee supply, it jeopardizes your favorite coffee's resiliency in the face of

On January 8th Republican Congressman Michael T. McCaul of Texas introduced H.R. 336, reported to be a companion bill to S.1, the Senate bill that would cement a $38 billion package to Israel, combat the movement to pressure Israel to

Noah Domingo, 18, was a first-year biological sciences major. The cause of death is under investigation.

Science funding is a mess. Could grant lotteries make it better?  Vox

We might be better off funding scientific research by choosing projects at random. Here's why.

U.S. Astronomers Ponder Science Priorities for the 2020s and Beyond  Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the ...

Care about Science? Demand a Better Democracy  Scientific American

Think science should inform policy? Then I'm here to tell you why you should care about democracy reform. We don't get science-based policies unless our ...

Huge New Solar Telescope Shares Science Excitement with Neighboring Schools  Space.com

As construction wraps up on a state-of-the-art solar telescope on Maui in Hawaii, astronomers share the instrument's science with local middle schoolers.

This Week in Science  Science Magazine

Biodiversity is sometimes quantified purely by the number of species within a system that allow it to function to produce ecosystem services. Grab et al. show that ...

How do we define creativity? - Science Weekly podcast  The Guardian

In our latest collaboration, Ian Sample teams up with Jordan Erica Webber of Chips with Everything to look at why artwork produced using artificial intelligence is ...

Pro-life is pro-science  Washington Examiner

Hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers will march on Friday from the National Mall to the steps of the Supreme Court for the 46th annual March for Life.

Earth and Moon impact flux increased at the end of the Paleozoic  Science Magazine

The rate at which impacts produce craters on the Moon is used to calibrate ages in planetary science. Earth should also have received similar numbers of ...

After outcry, Battelle reinstates science panel at ecological observatory  Science Magazine

The contractor running a major U.S. ecological research facility has reversed its decision to disband a scientific advisory panel. The move had drawn fierce ...

The Dutch Science Park Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe  WIRED

For his book Universe, photographer Jos Jansen documented a neutrino-detecting orb, data visualizations, and other ambitious projects in the Netherlands.

How To Get Published. The strength of Science and its online journal sites rests with the strengths of its community of authors, who provide cutting-edge research, incisive scientific commentary ...

Science (from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. The earliest roots of science can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3500 to 3000 BCE.

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Science News online features daily news, blogs, feature stories, reviews and more in all disciplines of science, as well as Science News magazine archives back to 1924.

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A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.

Science news from The New York Times. Get the latest developments about space, the environment, animal behavior, the brain, genetics, archeology and robots along with the weekly Science Times.

The microbes inside you, the edges of the known universe, and all the amazing stuff in between. Find science articles and current events from Popular Science.

The bullet catch is one of the deadliest tricks in magic history. No one knows if Houdini pulled off the illusion but now, a team of experts recreate the famed trick to uncover how Houdini could have pulled off the feat that killed many of his peers.

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