Science

Attach the camera system to a Pinacate beetle. Credit: Mark Stone / University of Washington. In the movie Ant Man, the title character can reduce its size and travel by flying on the back of an insect. Now researchers at the University of Washington have developed a small, steerable wireless …

On this day in 1969, Americans Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. They were the first of a select group of Americans to be the only humans to do so. Fast forward to more recent times: In May, the world saw …

The NGTS facility in Chile is working on tracking exoplanets located in the “Goldilocks” areas of its stars. ESO / G. Lambert Exoplanets, those mysterious planets that inhabit our solar system, are always fascinating, but humanity is particularly interested in those located in the habitable zones of their stars where …

BOSTON – Last week, when Dr. Emily Wroe left her home in Boston and drove west to see her parents in Idaho, she watched the signs of the pandemic turn less and less. After she left Ohio, customers at gas stations no longer wore masks. In Nebraska, when he needed …

Finding, catching and holding them captive is not difficult, Stockmaier said, “if you know where to get blood.” (His team gets everything it needs from local slaughterhouses.) For the experiment, the scientists injected 18 female bats once with lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a compound that induces an immune response similar to a …