A wonderfully fun study published in February 2022 asked a provocative question: what are the physiological determinants of trail running performance? The authors had me hooked in the abstract. So I ...

Suppose you are about to meet a person for the first time and want to predict that person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a variety of settings over the next several years. What single piece of ...

A new AI program observed physical phenomena and uncovered relevant variables -- a necessary precursor to any physics theory. But the variables it discovered were unexpected. A precursor step to ...

Mira variable stars change in luminosity in a regular pattern. Scientists have used 40 Mira variable stars to anchor an ...

Credit: Carnegie Science Hubble's discovery of the cepheid next door buttressed Curtis' argument that Andromeda was a separate galaxy from our own. Hubble would go on to measure M31's cepheid on ...

The Pleiades is one of the most recognizable groups of stars in the northern sky. While to the naked eye this feature appears as seven bright stars, the Pleiades is actually a young open cluster about ...

Can a computer simulation help guide the United States toward producing more and better-qualified math and science students? A team of engineers from the Raytheon Co. thinks so. Today, after three ...

Cell, the flagship biology journal of Cell Press, presents a landmark issue on sex and gender in science. It includes a collection of articles on topics related to strategies for promoting gender ...