A Hot Plant’s Irresistible Signal Makes Beetles Pollinate It

Cycad cones aren’t always hot. Instead, they follow daily cycles of heating and cooling: Pollen-laden male cones produce a big burst of heat in the late afternoon, and then ovulating female cones warm ...

A biochip built for the next pandemic can test dozens of viral antigens at once

In 2020, as scientists around the world were racing to understand COVID-19, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv and his team at the Weizmann ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

AI supercharges the challenges of discerning truth from fiction

"For many younger audiences, the 'news anchor' is now a TikTok personality, a YouTube commentator, or a podcaster with a ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

The fact-checking mandate evolves from politics to personal security

"Online scams, phishing attempts, and fraudulent schemes have grown in both volume and sophistication, creating a new front ...
College of Computing - Georgia Tech

Meet CSE Profile: Ph.D. Graduate Ziqi Zhang

Ph.D. student Ziqi Zhang has built a career blending machine learning with single-cell biology. His work helps scientists ...
Science Friday

Attention, Trivia Nerds! It’s A Food Science Fact Feast

After years of getting your emails and phone calls, we know that SciFri listeners are in the 99th percentile when it comes to nerdy knowledge. We’re putting your fact retention skills to the test with ...
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Science Facts That Will Amaze You

Discover Science Facts That Will Amaze You, like why only female mosquitoes bite and how a candle flame contains a million tiny diamonds. Get ready to be amazed by Cool Facts To Brag At A Party! WATCH ...
AOL

We Asked an Entomologist to Fact-Check the Science of ‘Alien: Earth’

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While the buzzy sci-fi series is science fiction (obviously), Dr. Sward says there's plenty of real ...
The Washington Post

This phrase was meant to increase trust in science. It backfired.

Aaron E. Carroll, a pediatrician, is president and CEO of AcademyHealth, a nonpartisan group that advances evidence-based health policy. The Trump administration’s 2025 budget proposed slashing the ...
E&E

EPA attacks climate science. Here are the facts.

The Trump administration’s proposal to roll back the endangerment finding includes many misleading and inaccurate claims. The Trump administration’s proposal Tuesday to revoke the so-called ...
Live Science

The sun: Facts about the bright star at the center of the solar system

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...
Science Daily

DNA floating in the air tracks wildlife, viruses -- even drugs

In the heart of Dublin, scientists have discovered that the air holds more than melodies and Guinness-infused cheer it carries invisible traces of life, from wildlife to drugs and even human diseases.