The regular Short Wave science roundup covers mysterious red dots in space, the neurons behind optical illusions and a study of octopus arms.

The nation’s ‘report card’ reveals the lowest math scores in 20 years. But we have a road map to a solution. AI Is the New ...

NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology has successfully shown that data encoded in lasers can be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded after traveling millions of miles from Earth ...

A highlight of Weinersmith’s visit was the balloon launch on the Quad, followed by a lecture based on the content of A City ...

The last date for registering (shortlisting through an online test) for PAN India students is extended till 30th September 2025. The last date for submission of abstracts by regular participants is ...

For Hannaford, the crossover between space and extreme medicine is natural. “It’s all austere environments,” he says. “The ...

In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover extracted a rock core from the edge of Neretva Vallis, a river valley cut into the ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders ...

Learn what science payloads are being shipped aboard Cargo Dragon to the International Space Station on the SpaceX CRS-30 mission. Credit: NASA CBS changes ‘Face the Nation’ interview policy after ...

He proceeded to show a series of pictures featuring tiny wrinkly faces, lopsided heads and creatures that frankly looked like bat faces photoshopped on guinea pigs. Turns out most of them were various ...

Following a successful launch of NASA's SpaceX 33rd commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon ...

SpaceX launches a Boeing-made X-37B space plane on a U.S. Space Force mission with its return date undisclosed. Photo: Jennifer Briggs/Zuma Press A Pentagon spaceplane called X-37B zoomed into orbit ...