Science Update

Physics of Tomorrow

December 8, 2016

In a special issue of Physics Today, scientists speculate about the physics of the 22nd century.

December 7, 2016

Could teenage binge drinking have effects on the next generation, even if they’re never exposed to …

December 6, 2016

Scientists demonstrate a new process for harvesting and utilizing carbon dioxide.

December 5, 2016

Researchers reverse engineer one of nature’s greatest sniffers.

December 2, 2016

Beer owes its distinctive aroma to fruit flies.

December 1, 2016

Why you sometimes feel a cold coming on, only to have the symptoms disappear the very next day.

November 30, 2016

A listener asks: Why do snowflakes appear so similar to each other?

November 29, 2016

Swimming biobots combine living cells with nanomaterials.

November 28, 2016

Astronomers calculate the distance to the furthest stars by comparing them to stars they know.

November 25, 2016

Tiny, untethered microgrippers could track down and retrieve hard-to-reach tissue samples.

November 24, 2016

The price of a wine arbitrarily influences how pleasurable it is to drink.

November 23, 2016

The brain architecture for processing sound is the same in deaf people as in hearing people.