It has been Emma Martinez’s lifelong dream to be an aerospace engineer, and this summer, she’s had her first opportunity to get her foot in the door. Of 3,000 applicants, Martinez — an incoming Cor ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

Ever since Donald Trump was elected President for a second time in 2024, I’ve been first warning about, and then lamenting, how his administration would devastate US federal science problems.

Choosing West Virginia University (WVU) means choosing an education that will set you up for the future. Pioneering research, academic excellence and forward-thinking values combined with a unique ...

We find that urban infrastructure inequalities are a characteristic feature of urbanization, with multiscale patterns that highlight greater inequalities at regional than at local intracity scales.

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...

There appears to be a recent epidemic of users hijacking companies’ AI-powered customer service bots to turn them into generic AI assistants. The goal is to get the branded bots to do their bidding, ...

Scientists are often advised to explain their work in terms that a child can understand—a task that is particularly challenging when it comes to such complex topics as quantum mechanics. It’s easier ...

For introducing its new AI-native product line that turns written descriptions and designs into working prototypes and apps Design platform Figma drew headlines for its successful July 2025 initial ...

The media is full of breathless reports that AI can now code and human programmers are going to be put out to pasture. We aren’t convinced. In fact, we think the “AI revolution” is just a natural ...