THE HORSE archers of ancient Iran had a trick known as the Parthian shot. When retreating after a charge they were able to twist their bodies around in the saddle and loose a final salvo. That is not ...

An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge scientific discovery. An ambitious start-up embodies new optimism that artificial intelligence can turbocharge ...

China's Tiangong Space Station was completed in 2022, featuring large payload capacity, long on-orbit operational periods, support for Earth-space transportation, global tracking and communication, ...

In the atrium of a research building at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing is a wall of patents. Around five metres wide and two storeys high, the wall displays 192 certificates, ...

The Great Barrier Reef is in such rapid decline that Australian researchers are now trying something that once sounded like science fiction: brightening clouds to cast a protective shade over the ...

The decision follows years of controversy and the departure of one of the program’s key researchers. Harvard researchers have ceased a long-running effort to conduct a small geoengineering experiment ...

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Colorado's JILA, National Institute of Science and Technology, have conducted an experiment to produce benzene the way theories have predicted it is produced in ...

Ingrid Daubechies, of Duke University, receives her National Medal of Science from Arati Prabhakar, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. President Joe Biden has ...