In the first few months of the second Trump administration, the federal government has rapidly dismantled its longstanding support for...
Science & Technology
Plants Seek Friendly Environments Rather Than Adapt
As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in places...
Early Visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-Century Astronomer Who Used Science Fiction to Imagine the Red Planet
Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely...
One Single Rule Helps Explain Life from Ocean Depths to Open Savannas
A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution has found a simple rule that seems to govern how life is organised...
AI Meets the Conditions for Having Free Will – We Need to Give It a Moral Compass
AI is advancing at such speed that speculative moral questions, once the province of science fiction, are suddenly real and...
Q&A: What Makes an ‘Accidental Dictator’ in the Workplace?
The professional world has no shortage of micromanagers — or, as Penn State School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER) faculty members Craig...
25 Years of Everglades Restoration Has Improved Drinking Water for Millions in Florida, but a New Risk Is Rising
Do you know where your drinking water comes from? In South Florida, drinking water comes from the Everglades, a vast...
‘Return’ of the Dire Wolf Is an Impressive Feat of Genetic Engineering, Not a Reversal of Extinction
Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic...
