Stories by Jesse Emspak

New FaceID biometrics will unlock the smartphone and provide access to Apple Pay and other apps

New observations of stars orbiting the Milky Way’s central giant black hole confirm Einstein’s theory yet again

The possible discovery of a giant extrasolar moon suggests our own may be an anomaly

New study suggests the middleweight worlds can create delicate ring-like features around other stars

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

Scientists flag unexpected behavior by “charm” quarks produced at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Weapons-grade fuel in a nuclear reactor emits a steady rate of telltale antineutrinos that could be detected by a newly designed portable device

Geologically young deposits in a crater on the dwarf planet's surface were formed by brine erupting from below

Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider reveal subtle distinctions in how matter and antimatter decay

The discovery brings the number of known "intermediate-mass" black holes to about a dozen

Earth's biosphere has bathed the lunar surface for billions of years

Surface cracks look like seafloor-spreading zones or rift valleys on Earth

Artificial intelligence picks up bias from human creators—not from hard, cold logic

It may be possible to "twist" light waves, cram in more information than ever before, and send the signal over a practical distance

Scientists think bright spots may be briny material bubbling up into a crater 

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

Harsh radiation, thin air and frigid temperatures on the Red Planet likely forced any extant microbes into subterranean refuges long ago

Alcohol intake boosts the risk of liver, breast and colon cancers—but seems to reduce it for kidney cancer

But they may soon. Researchers have written a program that detects smart-asses on social media and the Web

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

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

Physicists use particle accelerators to find differences between antimatter and matter, which could offer insight into why matter dominates the universe

Like smoke signals, puffs of warm air given off by a computer’s processors can reveal information

Physicists have chilled molecules to just a smidgen above absolute zero—colder than the afterglow of the Big Bang