Science

Credit: NASA NASA has awarded ASCEND Aerospace & Technology of Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS), to provide services at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The COSMOS is a single award,…

In response to increased tax rates, high-income earners often threaten to leave the location of their tax base. But do they actually follow through? A new article in the American Journal of Sociology, “Taxing the Rich: How Incentives and Embeddedness…

The glacial flood risks that Juneau is now experiencing each summer are becoming a growing problem in communities around the world.

Screens, and technology more generally, are often seen to be at odds with engagement and connection with nature. Teenagers are implored to put down their phones and go outside instead.

The fears are familiar: Artificial intelligence is going to eat our jobs, make our students weak and lazy and possibly destroy democracy for good measure.

While playing video games has traditionally been thought of as a male-dominated pastime, 51% of women now game in some capacity compared to 53% of men. However, although the number of women playing video games continues to increase, their representation…

Researchers have traditionally had a difficult time tracking the number of Americans who identify as transgender.

When a larger company acquires a smaller one, or creates a new subsidiary, it must decide how cozy it wants to be—both operationally and financially.

If you’ve ever seen a steep increase in the fare for an Uber to the airport on a Friday, or you’ve checked an item’s cost on Amazon, only to see it has changed hours later, you might have experienced algorithmic…

Scientists have retreated to deep beneath the French Alps to broaden the hunt for dark matter particles that could be “WIMPier than WIMPS.”