
Should Apple iPhone X Trust Facial Recognition for Security?
New FaceID biometrics will unlock the smartphone and provide access to Apple Pay and other apps

Should Apple iPhone X Trust Facial Recognition for Security?
New FaceID biometrics will unlock the smartphone and provide access to Apple Pay and other apps

Closest Supermassive Black Hole Tests Einstein’s Relativity
New observations of stars orbiting the Milky Way’s central giant black hole confirm Einstein’s theory yet again

No Endor in Sight: Habitable Exomoons May Be Rare
The possible discovery of a giant extrasolar moon suggests our own may be an anomaly

Super-Earths May Explain Curious Gaps in Planet-Forming Disks
New study suggests the middleweight worlds can create delicate ring-like features around other stars

World's Most Powerful Particle Collider Taps AI to Expose Hack Attacks
Machine learning is crucial to staying ahead of hackers trying to break into at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) massive worldwide computing grid

Quirky Quarks Could Reveal Details of the Big Bang
Scientists flag unexpected behavior by “charm” quarks produced at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Detection of Ghostly Particles Could Unmask Illicit Nuclear Weapons
Weapons-grade fuel in a nuclear reactor emits a steady rate of telltale antineutrinos that could be detected by a newly designed portable device

Dawn Spies More Signs of Ice-Spewing Volcanoes on Ceres
Geologically young deposits in a crater on the dwarf planet's surface were formed by brine erupting from below

Physicists Catch Antimatter and Matter Misbehaving
Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider reveal subtle distinctions in how matter and antimatter decay

Midsize Black Hole Found Hiding in Globular Cluster
The discovery brings the number of known "intermediate-mass" black holes to about a dozen

Traces of Oxygen on the Moon Come from Earth's Plants
Earth's biosphere has bathed the lunar surface for billions of years

Pluto's Moon Charon Had Its Own, Icy Plate Tectonics
Surface cracks look like seafloor-spreading zones or rift valleys on Earth

How a Machine Learns Prejudice
Artificial intelligence picks up bias from human creators—not from hard, cold logic

Physicists Twist Light, Send 'Hello World' Message Between Islands
It may be possible to "twist" light waves, cram in more information than ever before, and send the signal over a practical distance

NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres
Scientists think bright spots may be briny material bubbling up into a crater

Are the Nobel Prizes Missing Female Scientists?
The prize is biased toward men of European descent, and European and American researchers in general, a bias that is part of a larger problem of excluding women and minorities for consideration

Was There Ever Life on Mars?
Harsh radiation, thin air and frigid temperatures on the Red Planet likely forced any extant microbes into subterranean refuges long ago

Fortifying Spirits: When a (Glass of) Punch Is Good for the Kidneys
Alcohol intake boosts the risk of liver, breast and colon cancers—but seems to reduce it for kidney cancer

Computers Can Sense Sarcasm? Yeah, Right
But they may soon. Researchers have written a program that detects smart-asses on social media and the Web

Early Earth's Atmosphere Was Surprisingly Thin
Bubbles in 2.7-billion-year-old lava fields suggest Earth's ancient air was half as thick as today's

Strange New State of Hydrogen Created
Phase V hydrogen, created by crushing Earth's lightest element with mind-boggling pressures, gives the physicists a glimpse of the inner atmosphere of a gas giant, where pressures reach millions of (Earth) atmospheres

Antimatter Protons Stick Together Just Like Normal Particles
Physicists use particle accelerators to find differences between antimatter and matter, which could offer insight into why matter dominates the universe

A Computer's Heat Could Divulge Top Secrets
Like smoke signals, puffs of warm air given off by a computer’s processors can reveal information

Molecules Reach Coldest Temperature Ever
Physicists have chilled molecules to just a smidgen above absolute zero—colder than the afterglow of the Big Bang