October 26, 2024 • An old Norse story tells of a king's man being tossed down a well in 1197. An archeologist teamed up with an evolutionary genomicist to study DNA of a skeleton found in that well.

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With the use of science and technology ... The Food Standards Agency (FSA), with Food Standards Scotland, won the bid to be awarded £1.6 million in funding from the Government’s Engineering ...

Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...

Oct. 24, 2024 — A research team analyzed wastewater surveillance methods for accurately tracking COVID-19 infection trends. Using wastewater data from Sapporo dating ...

Atmospheric science is the study of the dynamics and chemistry of the layers of gas that surround the Earth, other planets and moons. This encompasses the interactions between various parts of the ...

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Oct. 16, 2024 — A paper has solved a major hurdle facing researchers working with diamond by creating a novel way of bonding diamonds directly to materials that integrate easily with either ...

Credit: Reuters This milestone took place during the fifth test flight of the Starship rocket, marking a significant leap toward the ambitious goals of SpaceX and its founder, Elon Musk ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

“[Contaminated] poppy seeds actually do have opiates in them,” she says–but lots of medications, even common, over-the-counter drugs can confound tests with entirely different compoun ...