Scientists simulate cosmic crashes to test whether icy moons gain or lose their ability to sustain life

Many of the moons orbiting Saturn, Uranus and Neptune likely conceal oceans of liquid water beneath miles of icy shell.

Kids involved with child protective services miss much more school than their peers

Across the country, kids are settling into new school-year routines. Parents buy backpacks, teachers arrange desks and lesson ...

Improving urban flood forecasting with real-time hazardous rainfall detection

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) announced that it will apply its early detection ...

Sea surface temperature biases shift the North Pacific jet stream southward, study finds

Climate models are numerical models used to project future climate change. They simulate the climate from the present into the future by calculating changes in the atmosphere, ocean and other ...

How rural policing gaps can make escaping domestic violence harder

Before murdering Molly Ticehurst in April 2024, court documents show Daniel Billings had threatened to exploit the limits of ...

Small gardens are a big barrier to supporting nature—but better planning could protect UK wildlife

A new study by Chester Zoo and Nottingham Trent University scientists revealed that just over a third (38%) of more than 230 ...

Tiny atomic tweak makes plastic-eating enzymes more powerful

A new approach that changes just one atom in plastic-degrading enzymes could help make them more efficient while maintaining ...

As AI reshapes jobs and workers change industries, employers need to be more flexible too

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the tasks people do at work and the skills they need. As work changes, being able to ...

Humans or AI? Who or what can scam you more effectively?

A text from your neighborhood gardening club friend Ben offering a deal on seeds might seem too specific to be a scam. But ...

North Korea's nuclear testing may have triggered hundreds of earthquakes over several years

Between 2006 and 2017, North Korea conducted six underground nuclear tests at its vast testing site at Mount Mantap in North ...

Physicists extend the search for quantum black holes at the LHC

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron ...

Discovery of CRISPR's long lost ancestor may expand gene-editing toolkit

CRISPR may be a powerful technology for gene editing, but the system existed in bacteria long before scientists began using it. For billions of years, CRISPR has acted as a natural immune system in ...