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Physics May 2, 2016

Where is the safest place to sit on a train?

Tuesday's deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, which killed at eight people and injured more than 200 others, may have people wondering, where is the safest place to sit on a train? Conventional wisdom holds that the front car of a train is the most dangerous place in the event of a head-on collision, while the last car is less safe if the train is rear-ended.

Biology May 2, 2016

Art and technology battle autism through MSSNG project

聽On May 6, the typical stylish New York City gallery crowd mingled and gawked at art lining the walls of the Betaworks studio gallery in the city鈥檚 Meatpacking District for The MSSNG Lab, an invitation and one-night-only art installation and auction. What separated this from similar art events in the city? Well, for one thing, biochemist and fine art photographer Linden Gledhill was stationed center stage on a platform staring down a microscope as a screen projection on the wall showed in real-time the microscopic images he was analyzing.

American Innovation May 2, 2016

Samsung Solve for Tomorrow winners head to Washington, D.C.

High school freshman Bela Reyes-Klein said she was overwhelmed with pride when she found out that she and her fellow teenage engineers from Galena High School in Reno, Nev., were one of five groups to win the national Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest. The competition, designed to encourage students and teachers throughout the country to use STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) projects to solve problems facing their communities, announced the five winning schools in April. On April 29, students and teachers from the winning schools 鈥� which won a combined $2 million 鈥� will attend an awards luncheon in Washington, D.C.

Science Education May 2, 2016

For Earth Day, Levi Strauss & Co. wants consumers to pledge to wash less

Did you know that about 3,800 liters of water are used over the course of the lifetime of a pair of jeans? What about this statistic 鈥� consumer care, like washing, contributes 37 percent of the roughly 74 pounds of carbon dioxide emitted during a pair of jeans鈥� use. The figures come from a recent Levi Strauss & Co. study on the impact that jeans have on the environment, an update on a similar 2007 report from the company. The goal was to shed light on the fairly large-scale impact that wearing a pair of jeans 鈥� something most people just take for granted 鈥� can have.

Science Education May 2, 2016

Super species: Animals with extreme powers invade museum聽

The astonishing tardigrade 鈥� a microscopic animal that looks like a cross between a bear and a cushy pillow 鈥� can survive for 10 years without water, endure boiling temperatures and withstand the radiation, weightlessness and iciness of space

Biology May 2, 2016

Genomics guru dives deep into DNA data

Eric Schadt, director of the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai in New York was thrust into the tech spotlight last month after launching an Asthma Health app with Apple.

Digging History May 2, 2016

Medieval parasite-filled poop found in Jerusalem latrine

The excavation of a roughly 500-year-old latrine in Jerusalem has uncovered thousands of eggs from human parasites, including some that may have come from Northern Europe, a new study finds

Science Education May 2, 2016

Proving Einstein wrong with 'spooky' quantum experiment

Quantum mechanics is one of the best-tested theories in science, and it's one of the few where physicists get to do experiments proving that Einstein was wrong

Chemistry May 2, 2016

Scientists create new synthetic 鈥榗hameleon skin鈥� that changes color on demand

Taking a cue from a certain color-shifting lizard, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have created a new super-thin material that can change color on demand.聽

Science Education May 2, 2016

Santa Barbara Zoo welcomes new baby giraffe Asha

The Santa Barbara Zoo welcomed a new addition to its giraffe herd over the weekend with the birth of Asha, a 6-foot-4-inches tall, 182-pound calf. The tall baby was born March 14 at 4:55 a.m. ET, and met fellow calf, Buttercup, a male that was born in November, the following day.

Science Education May 2, 2016

'America's great migration:' Thousands of cranes meet along Nebraska river

Right now, visitors from around the world are flocking to the banks of the Platte River near Kearney, Neb. to see what Bill Taddicken, director of the Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary, calls 鈥渙ne of the last great migrations remaining鈥� on Earth. From March through early April, about 600,000 sandhill cranes 鈥� nearly 90 percent of the world鈥檚 total sandhill population 鈥� will make a stop at the Nebraskan river, something of a pit stop on the 鈥淐entral Flyway,鈥� their path to breeding grounds in Canada, Alaska, and as far away as Siberia.