Stories by The Conversation US

Major airports will see more frequent takeoff weight restrictions in the coming decades due to increasingly common hot temperatures

The right mix of people who already know one another, of boys and girls--Ramsey numbers may hold the answer

Net neutrality arguments aside, researchers pursue a faster and more reliable way to send and receive large amounts of data through the internet in times of crisis

Scientists have reconstructed the ancient plant and figured out how it reproduced

LED flickering is even more pronounced than that of fluorescent lighting

July 30 marks the United Nations’ World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, a day focused on ending the criminal exploitation of children, women and men for forced labor or sex work

We’re not going to stop taking pictures and recording movies, and we need to develop new ways to save them

Cassini data points to Titan as a contender for hosting some sort of primitive life, researchers say

Rather than being designed by chemists, this class of pharmaceuticals is produced by living cells. Here's where they come from and how they work

Newly identified volcanoes may have provided the perfect environment for microbial life-forms to thrive

Australia is the end point of early modern human migration out of Africa, and sets the minimum age for the global dispersal of humans

U.S. firms have both the incentive and the opportunity to use information about us in undesirable ways

Language diversity has played a key role in shaping the history of our species, yet we know surprisingly little about the factors shaping this diversity

“Being a scientist doesn’t absolve me of my humanity”

A glaciologist explains that any link to climate change is far from straightforward

Instead of laws to restrict robot behavior, robots should be empowered to pick the best solution for any given scenario

 Each big catastrophe like a hurricane increases a U.S. county's poverty by 1 percent,  90 years of data show

A decade ago Apple didn’t just create a phone with some extra features, it introduced a full-fledged handheld computer that could also make calls and browse the internet

Cash will likely become less popular, thanks to the high cost of using cash and the growing array of alternatives

Given the evidence that an asteroid triggered the dinosaur extinction, it makes sense to ask whether showers of asteroids could be to blame for regular extinction events

Researchers are working on ways AI could digest these massive texts and extract their meaning, presenting it in terms that people can actually understand

A sedimentologist weighs in on beach selection, tools and the perfect sand-to-water ratio

A new high-tech approach is helping paleontologists better understand the link between a set of ancient fossils and modern animals

They don’t use hugs, but helping with tasks or activities is a man’s way of showing affection and should not be belittled