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A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...

Julia is on the verge of returning to the top 20 of the TIOBE Index. The programming language is benefiting, in part, from its position in scientific ...

Superheroes come in all shapes and sizes, and they all command a different type of fanbase. Some huge heroes have fanbases that eclipse every hero around them, and some have small, dedicated fans who ...

Galien Grosjean was a caretaker of tiny glass beads. He bathed them, gently cradled them with tweezers, placed them delicately in his experimental apparatus. He avoided unneeded jostling at all costs: ...

Today, the U.S. Department of Education’s (the Department’s) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a significant deregulatory action, taking an important step to reduce unnecessary red tape and ...

United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket launched the U.S. Space Force’s USSF-87 mission early Feb. 12, 2026, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: ULA WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman ...

Elaine’s stories explore the boom in new obesity treatments, new drug payment models, the ways companies are affected by FDA changes, and the emerging psychedelics drug sector. She co-writes The ...

Think the chances of finding the right person for you—that needle in a haystack—are stacked against you, so to speak? Well, why not just burn down all the haystacks to find that needle? That's what ...

Abstract: Aim. With the advent of LLMs, agentic program repair has become viable in large organizations with large codebases. While APR research frequently motivates its techniques around helping ...

Today, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) announced a final rule to implement the Workforce Pell Grant program created under President Trump’s historic Working Families Tax Cuts Act ...

Reconfigurable mechanical systems enable precise programmable control over structural properties, expanding opportunities in architected materials, adaptive devices, and multifunctional structures.