A study published today by Gallup and commissioned by Amazon Future Engineer sheds light on the impact that school, mentors and support have on children’s interest in computer science and willingness ...

In 2021, plastics recycling got a whole new vibe. At least that’s the way Bert Weckhuysen, an inorganic chemist at Utrecht University, puts it. The scientific community has known for years that ...

Science communicators once again had their hands full in 2021. Between two and three million research articles were published this year, announcing discoveries from the microscopic to the cosmic and ...

Scientists may have spotted stars made of antimatter (SN: 6/5/21, p. 8). Finding antistars challenges a basic tenet of cosmology — that the vast majority of the universe’s antimatter, matter’s ...

As 2021 began, scientists, along with the rest of us, confronted many of the same issues that dominated 2020: the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the continued disruption of school and work.

In one of history’s weird coincidences, the second summer of a global pandemic brought Johns Hopkins biologist Ethan Allen Andrews out on a Baltimore lawn to watch the massive Brood X cicada mating ...

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We regularly hear warnings that climate change may lead to 'tipping points': irreversible situations where savanna can quickly change into desert, or the warm gulf stream current can simply stop ...

Joe Spring, Bridget Alex, Riley Black, Dan Falk and Katrina Miller This year the news cycle was dominated again by stories about Covid-19, and rightly so, but other big discoveries were made ...

As the Delta variant became the dominant strain of the coronavirus across the United States, all three COVID-19 vaccines available to Americans lost some of their protective power, with vaccine ...