The Most (And Least) Metal Words Ever, Says Math

The many methods we use to gather data ultimately boil down to either counting or comparing.

Here’s how you can hack together a radio transmitter and receiver out of stuff you have at home—and explore the weirdness of wireless.

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity to produce them.

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab.

The USDA this week confirmed the first known infection of the carnivorous fly larva, which feast on the flesh of living mammals, after the United States eradicated the nightmare bugs in the 1960s.

The LA mayoral candidate and former reality TV star is fueling his campaign with fears about an ultra-potent meth. Experts say it’s drug war propaganda.

There are black holes that are too big to be born from the death of a star but aren’t quite supermassive either. There’s finally evidence for where those came from.

States across the US are looking to take major sources of pollution and use them to generate much-needed power.

The coding skills of AI models are about to make it much easier to build and deploy robots.

The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.