Science & Technology

This 3-D printer can fit in the palm of your hand

In a few years, you might be able to 3-D print right in the palm of your hand. A new…

A stellar explosion may add a temporary ‘new star’ to the night sky this summer

Keep your eyes on the night sky this summer, scanning for the constellation Corona Borealis, and if you are lucky,…

50 years ago, scientists ID’d a threat to California wine country

Sweet discovery for the wine industry — Science News, June 29, 1974 Pierce’s disease remains a problem for California grape…

An ancient earthquake changed the course of the Ganges River

India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new geologic evidence suggests.…

‘Do I Know You?’ explores face blindness and the science of the mind

Do I Know You?Sadie DingfelderLittle, Brown Spark, $32 A friend and I recently stumbled into a conversation about inner monologues.…

Stunning trilobite fossils include soft tissues never seen before

Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new lifelike fossils update…

Calling gun violence a public health crisis is a ‘first step’ to fight it 

For the first time in history, a United States surgeon general has formally declared gun violence a public health crisis. …

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ work left its mark on their skeletons

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones. Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’ skeletons where the…

The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct

Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s last woolly mammoth…

In ‘Warming Up,’ the sports world’s newest opponent is climate change

Warming UpMadeleine OrrBloomsbury Sigma, $28 It’s easy to think of sports as an escape from reality, removed from the glaring…