SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

When Slate Auto, a start-up, unveiled a roughly $25,000 electric pickup truck last month, social media lit up with comments. Many people saw the no-frills vehicle, with an easy-to-repair body and nostalgic hand crank windows, as a refreshing antidote...

Applications 13/05/2025 697 views 28 likesOn 12 March 2013, Galileo satellite GSAT0104, alongside its fellow In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites, made history by enabling the first position fix by Europe’s independent satellite navigation system Galileo. Now, after 12 years of service...

The United States population is older than it has ever been. Today, the country’s median age is...

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a part of our daily lives, whether in the office or the classroom, and one medical school is fully embracing the technology.The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in...

If you’ve ever really looked at how flamingos eat, you know how captivatingly peculiar it is. They bob their inverted heads in the water and do a kind of waddle cha-cha as they inch their way across shallow water,...

A pair of spacecraft have demonstrated ultra-precise formation flying in orbit for the first time, marking a milestone with major implications for both science and future space missions.The European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft called...

Republicans in the House of Representatives have released their proposal to cut an estimated $715 billion in funding for Medicaid. If it becomes law, the plan would result in 8.6 million more uninsured Americans in the next decade, according...

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order asking drugmakers to voluntarily reduce the prices of key medicines in the United States.But the order cites no obvious legal authority to mandate lower prices. The order said the administration would...

The EU's Commissioner for Research, Startups and Innovation, Ekaterina Zaharieva, tells Bloomberg's Oliver Crook that the EU is looking to boost research in areas including AI, bio-economy, quantum and cleantech. That's as the bloc...

A common chemical in household plastics has been linked with heart disease deaths.In 2018, about 13.5 percent of the more than 2.6 million deaths from cardiovascular disease among people ages 55 to 64 globally could have been related to...