Science

Feds OK Amazon's delivery drone tests (for real, this time)

By Rebecca Lee

Amazon has won the Federal Aviation Administration's approval to test delivery drones in the United States, as long as the drones fly no higher than 400 feet and no faster than 100 miles per hour.

What it's like to see colors for the first time

By Joshua Barajas

Not long ago, I learned that a company called EnChroma had developed glasses that claimed to “correct” colorblindness for red-green colorblind people like myself. So I sent for a pair. They arrived, nestled in a black carrying case, a couple…

How simple tools can shave hours off food preparation in the developing world

By PBS News Hour

Kitchen convenience means something different for millions of small farmers in poor countries. A nonprofit in St. Paul creates simple, efficient tools that could save people hours of labor on tasks like threshing grain and shelling peanuts. Special correspondent Fred…

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After 100 years, Brontosaurus name may be making a comeback

By Justin Scuiletti

After more than a century of extinction in the scientific community, the name Brontosaurus may be ready to return to the ranks of its dinosaur brethren.

A reactivated Large Hadron Collider set to explore 'uncharted territory'

By Justin Scuiletti

The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, which has granted scientists a look at the beginnings of our universe, was just granted a new beginning.

Want more women in science and math? Pay attention to group projects, study suggests

By Laura Santhanam

Group projects may hold the key to getting more girls and women to enter science, technology, engineering and math or fields that men otherwise dominate.

Brain 'gender' more flexible than once believed, study finds

By Carey Reed

A team of researchers successfully changed the gender in the brains of newborn rats from female to male, according to findings published this week in Nature Neuroscience.

Babies resemble tiny scientists more than you might think

By Laura Santhanam

A new Johns Hopkins University study has found that when an object behaves in an unusual way, the baby will explore more, learn more and test the object's behavior.

This tiny songbird flies Canada to Puerto Rico nonstop

By Jenny Marder

Every year, from September to November, millions of tiny songbirds gather along the Northeastern coastline, get fat feasting on insects and take to the skies. And then they fly and they fly and they fly. It's long been believed…