Jacob Shaul, a San Francisco high school student, has expanded his volunteer-run coding initiative, Mode to Code, to teach 1,000 students across eight countries in 2025. The program offers free ...

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Labs trying to understand the spread of microplastics have a unique problem: the tiny plastic particles are everywhere. Avoiding contamination of samples and experiments takes a lot of time and effort ...

As a researcher, I still remember the discomfort I felt every time I had to sacrifice laboratory animals for an experiment. For decades, animals like mice, rats and pigs have been essential tools in ...

In November, 2024, on the day of the U.S. Presidential election, Tim Whitmarsh landed in Beijing, jet-lagged and disoriented. It was the middle of the academic term at the University of Cambridge, ...

University can be a time of great opportunities, but it can also be very stressful. Many students need to support themselves financially and may be living away from home. Students are also under ...

Nearly all of the planets in the solar system are about to march through the night sky in a single-file line. This planetary alignment, sometimes called a planet parade, will include all of the solar ...

Being an expert birdwatcher is more than a hobby. It’s a pastime that may alter the structure and function of your brain. And these changes may enhance cognition even as you age, new research suggests ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered a mechanism that could explain how exercise improves cognition by shoring up the brain’s protective barrier of blood vessels. With age, this network of ...

You see it over your social feeds: Videos of adorable babies saying oddly grown-up things, public figures making wildly uncharacteristic statements, nature photos too far-fetched to be true. In the ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland are aiming to answer that question in a new nationwide study that uses “Smart Underwear” to track how much participants pass gas each day. The research, led by ...

Getting LeetCode onto your PC can make practicing coding problems a lot smoother. While there isn’t an official LeetCode app you can download and install like regular software, there are several ways ...