French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible.Since then,...

By Sandra Helsel posted 28 Aug 2023 Quantum News Briefs August 28: DARPA investing  $2.4M into Virginia Tech program...

IntroductionFor decades, astronomers have been perplexed by planetary magnetic fields. In our own solar system, there is no rule that explains which worlds generate...

Dr. Nadya T. Bliss, CCC Council Vice Chair and Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative (GSI) at Arizona State University (ASU), was just...

It’s been a hot summer, with heat waves engulfing multiple parts of the world and setting record temperatures in some. We can hope that...

IntroductionIn 2017, a team of scientists from Germany trekked to Chile to investigate how living organisms sculpt the face of the Earth. A local...

June 22nd, 2023 / in AI, Announcements, CCC / by Maddy Hunter Last month, the National Telecommunications and Information...

The art of folding paper could be the key to unlocking more realistic VR experiences.A group of researchers based out of Westlake University in...

IntroductionLife on other worlds — if it exists — might be so alien as to be unrecognizable. There’s no guarantee that alien biology would...

IntroductionIn March 2018 at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, surrounded by his devoted keepers, Sudan the northern white rhino breathed his last. He...

Karel Green reviews The Sky Is For Everyone: Women Astronomers In Their Own Words edited by Virginia Trimble and David A...

IntroductionIn the children’s game telephone, a whispered phrase like “I ate a pear” can quickly become “I hate bears” as it moves down a...