The spooky season comes with some rare coincidences in 2020.
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A rare Halloween ‘blue moon’ will shine on trick-or-treaters tonight
The spooky season comes with some rare coincidences in 2020.
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How do I see the rare Halloween blue Moon?
Werewolves beware! On 31 October 2020, the night skies will be illuminated by a unusual type of full Moon…
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Election Science Stakes: Energy
Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti and associate editor Andrea Thompson talk about this election and the future of U.S. energy research and policy.
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United Kingdom lights up its unusual fusion reactor
The United Kingdom’s revamped fusion reactor, known as the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade, powered up for the first time yesterday after a 7-year build. The £55 million device will be a testbed for technologies critical to all future fusion reactors, and may provide a stepping stone to a […]
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COVID-19 household transmission is way higher than we thought
COVID-19 spreads in U.S. households more often than previously thought.
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Self-driving car trial launched on Oxford roads
The Government-backed Project Endeavour will run until autumn 2021.
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Trump catalyzed the March for Science. Where is it now?
On 22 April 2017, just 3 months after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, more than 1 million demonstrators around the world took to the streets for an unprecedented event: the March for Science. The event, designed to demonstrate public support for science, was a “lightning in a bottle moment” […]
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Ancient canine DNA reveals diversity of Ice Age dogs
There were at least five different types of dog with distinct genetic ancestries during the period that followed the Ice Age, some 11,000 years ago.