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Physics

Let’s learn about particles that help us peer inside objects

Particles such as muons, X-rays and neutrons help scientists peer inside fossils, mummies, pyramids, volcanoes and the human body.

Physics

Experiment: Make your own cents-able battery

Make your own ‘voltaic pile’ with pennies and nickels, and find out how many coins will make the most electricity!

Space

Check out the magnetic fields around our galaxy’s central black hole

Astronomers have captured polarized light coming from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. This offers insight into its magnetic fields.

Genetics

Scientists Say: Genetic Engineering

Genetic engineering involves adding, changing or removing certain pieces of DNA from a living thing to give it desired traits.

Earth

Earthquake sensor: Taylor Swift fans ‘Shake It Off’

Scientists determined dancing fans were behind the seismic waves recorded during Swift’s August concerts.

Math

Cake-cutting math offers lessons that go far beyond dessert plates

As a way to study how to fairly share a limited resource, cake-cutting can inform splitting up chores, drawing fair voting districts and more.

Health & Medicine

With measles outbreaks in 49 countries, should you worry?

By March, the United States had more measles cases than in all of 2023. It was part of a global trend. The way to halt measles’ spread: vaccinations.

Archaeology

A tattoo experiment hints at how Ötzi the Iceman got his ink

The findings challenge a common idea about how the mummified man got marked with dark lines.

Artificial Intelligence

Here’s why AI like ChatGPT probably won’t reach humanlike understanding

Unlike people, this type of artificial intelligence isn’t good at learning concepts that it can apply to new situations.

Materials Science

Scientists Say: Semiconductor

Modern electronics, from cell phones to video games, work thanks to these conductor-insulator hybrids.