California seeks to tax rocket launches, which are already taxed

Ars Technica-19 hours ago

Phil Larson, a former Obama White House official who now is assistant dean of the University of Colorado's College of Engineering and Applied Science, told ...

Scientists Crack Another Mystery Behind Blood Falls

HowStuffWorks NOW-19 hours ago

But while that horror scene hue undoubtedly pulls you in, scientists have now figured out the source of the pigmentation — and it's arguably more fascinating ...

China's air force has a new ground-attack plane

Popular Science-19 hours ago

The L-15B prototype attack jet made its grand debut in a ceremony last week. Fanfare—including giant red banners and uniformed PLAAF officers—suggest the ...

As a woman in science, I need to conceal my femininity to be taken ...

Vox-19 hours ago

While I'll never know if my student's behavior was tied to my hairstyle, his actions are compatible with building evidence that women scientists are taken less ...

How Fidget Spinners Work: It's All About the Physics

Live Science-20 hours ago

I described what it did but had no idea why someone would buy one ;-)," Doherty told Live Science in an email. For Doherty, the spinners are interesting for ...

Controversial Study on Plastic Microbeads Retracted for Alleged Fraud

snopes.com-20 hours ago

In their Science paper, Lönnstedt and Eklöv claimed that European perch larvae—which are more vulnerable to pollution than adult fish—prefer to eat ...

Cure for eczema on horizon as scientists find trigger for skin condition

Telegraph.co.uk-20 hours ago

A cure for eczema may finally be on the horizon, after scientists discovered what is triggering the debilitating skin condition. Around one in 10 adults and 20 per ...

Tablets and smartphones damage toddlers' speech development

Telegraph.co.uk-20 hours ago

Putting babies in front of iPads before the age of two stunts speech development, a new study suggests. In Britain children under the age of three spend an ...

Here's the video of NASA's epic dive through Saturn's gap

Popular Science-20 hours ago

Scientists aren't sure how this sharp shape takes form, but each side of the hexagon is longer than the Earth's diameter. All those bright swirls are storms.

Genetically modified algae could soon show up in food, fuel, and ...

Popular Science-20 hours ago

For now, algae-based products remain woefully expensive, but a group of California scientists is working on making them a whole lot cheaper.