Technology

A new and contentious five-year limit for getting rid of dead satellites could slow the growing orbital litter problem—if people actually...

The ‘Er’ grouping could help doctors identify and treat some rare cases of blood incompatibility, including between pregnant mothers...

In the rapidly warming Eastern Mediterranean, water stratifies into layers, like a cake. That’s allowing carbon-spewing crystals to...

Wood and biosolids from water treatment plants can be used to improve the soil—and keep remaining trees healthy.

The Allen Institute’s release includes recordings from a whopping 300,000 mouse neurons. Now the challenge is figuring out what to...

Neural networks can use self-supervised learning to figure out what matters. This process might be what helps humans do the same.

With human therapists in short supply, AI chatbots are trying to plug the gap—but it’s not clear how well they work.

From the Danube to the Loire, these lifelines for the continent’s economy are running low after five months of brutal drought and...

Tropical storms are increasingly likely to batter the US as oceans warm—and will continue to wreak havoc so long as climate change...

Astronomers mourn the end of an infrared observatory that flew aboard a jumbo jet. It was expensive, but it saw what Earth-based telescopes...