How three coastal communities are dealing with rising seas
Around the world, rising seas pose a major threat to coastal communities. Flooding will likely become worse, damaging buildings where…
Month: February 2019
Prizes, Thievery and Higher-Dimensional Doughnuts
And how mathematical collaborations yield breakthroughs. The biggest math heist in years happened the morning of Aug. 1 in a…
Lung Cancer Biology Differs by Race, Study Shows
Research findings could help improve personalized treatments for lung cancer patients. ALL CANCEROUS TUMORS contain cells that divide rapidly. There are…
Unbound and Out: Boosted by black holes, stars speed off, leaving clues behind
Space oddities may help reveal dark matter and other secrets in the Milky Way. Astronomer Warren Brown explains. In April,…
Rise of the botnets
Armies of zombie computers caused a lot of mayhem in 2018. In January, one cluster of infected, connected machines attacked…
Is climate change fanning megafires?
As wildfires grow in number and intensity, scientists look for the fingerprints of global warming The biggest fire in California…
Can self-driving cars make roads safer and less congested?
Pedestrians in downtown Miami one weekday last November might have noticed something unusual about the blue Ford Fusions threading their…
Quantum computing gets its “Hello World” moment.
Tech experts have long championed quantum computers as the next generation of machine, promising to solve big problems in lightning-fast…