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Rather than relying on optics, the microscopy system offers a chemically encoded way to map biomolecules’ relative positions.

Writer Pagan Kennedy visits the National Radio Quiet Zone in Greenbank, W. Va., where radiotelescopes have created a community seeking escape from modern living.

Fluid gives robots power without adding weight — bringing them closer to autonomy.

Modern satellite imagery and 3-D modeling create a multimedia view of how Apollo 11 played out on the lunar surface

The director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health calls for an end to all-male speaking panels: "Starting now, when I consider speaking invitations, I will expect a level playing field, where scientists of all backgrounds are evaluated fairly for speaking opportunities."

There are ghosts in our galaxy’s past. Now astronomers have found a way to detect them.

Accurate predictions of Earth’s warming require computers that are too expensive for any one country or institution. Instead a "CERN for climate modeling" is needed, writes Sabine Hossenfelder, a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.

Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint: Researchers performed a life-cycle assessment for training several common large AI models and found that the process can emit the equivalent of 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide.

Young scientists describe scientific concepts, images and research that inspire them to make environmentally friendly decisions and model sustainable behavior for others, in both their personal and professional lives.

Physicist Sean Carroll describes how the discoveries of the late Murray Gell-Mann illuminated the most puzzling aspects of nature and changed science forever.