We’ve long known that our digital cameras and smartphones can take incredibly detailed images, but taking pictures is not quite the same thing. For the past half-century, computer scientists have been ...

Last week, we met the Presocratics: despite having by any reasonable standard invented science in Europe, these thinkers are lumped together today as simply “not Socrates.” So who was this smarty ...

Now, not all hackers are are malicious cybercriminals intent on stealing your data (these people are known as Black Hats). There are also White Hats who hunt for bugs, close security holes, and ...

Earlier this month, Organic Geochemistry Laboratory manager Lennart van Maldegem posed a question to a group of eighth graders from behind a table jumbled with jars of candy, food coloring and ...

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Five years ago, as local newsrooms shrunk and specialty reporters became fewer, a nonpartisan, free service launched to help those who remained. SciLine, based at the American Association for the ...