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Last September roboticist Benjie Holson posted the “Humanoid Olympic Games”: a set of increasingly difficult tests for humanoid robots that…

Of all the pesticides out there, few have sparked more controversy than glyphosate. The world’s most used weed killer, glyphosate…

A winter bomb cyclone is expected to bring blizzard conditions across parts of the East Coast from Maryland up through…

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This video is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial…

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Going to space…

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated…

The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense—but it was nonetheless the start of important things: for one,…

Which animals came first? For more than a century, most evidence suggested that sponges, immobile filter-feeders that lack muscles, neurons…