Two of the 1600s’ greatest minds helped build modern science, but their rivalry became a fight over credit, status, and control of the Royal Society. Newton used his power to dominate disputes like ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

The invasion of Ukraine has stymied health care services, allowing diseases such as HIV to spread unchecked. The rate of contagion has been difficult to gauge. But now, using a van equipped with ...

The Baltic Sea is one of the world's most oxygen-depleted major bodies of water. The reason is excessive concentrations of phosphorus, an element essential for life—and an important ingredient in ...

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...

Mice that experience the real world may be better models for human mental health conditions, compared with lab mice that never leave their cages, a study hints. When you purchase through links on our ...

An Electron lifts off Dec. 21 carrying a radar imaging satellite for Japanese company iQPS. Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite Dec. 21 ...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Space Force and NASA experiment lifted off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2 at Wallops Island, Virginia Dec. 18 at 12:03 a.m. Eastern to test a new small-satellite architecture ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

Beth DuFault has received funding from the Ahmanson Foundation. People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, scientists simply ...