- Utilities have upgraded the infrastructure for rooftop power in richer neighborhoods, but low-income areas don't have the same capacity.
- The first all-civilian, all-private mission to orbit prepares to blast off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
- Four civilians—none of them NASA astronauts—are expected to blast into space aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
- Dozens of microchips scattered over the cortical surface might allow researchers to listen in on thousands of neurons at the same time.
- Human behavior has changed along with the virus and public health measures to contain it. For modelers, it’s a curveball.
- Voice analysis of a 34-year-old recording proves that Ripper the musk duck “independently evolved” to mimic his human caretakers.
- Scientists taught an artificial neural network to imitate a biological neuron. The result offers a new way to think about the complexity of brain cells.
- The tiny optical devices turn up in lane markers, road signs, bike gear and even on the moon, helping us see under low-light conditions.
- A spate of studies claim that the disease was circulating in Italy long before the pandemic—but they struggle to support the theory.
- Overfishing, habitat loss, and climate change are driving species collectively known as chondrichthyan fishes toward a global crisis.