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A recent review investigates the surprising links between the sense of smell and obesity risk. The findings have implications for future treatments.

In factories across the world, machines are beginning to work more intimately with humans without sending them to the unemployment line—or the grave.

To save power, a cheap new timer can tell smart sensors when to wake up—no batteries required.

- National Aeronautics and Space Administration will still continue supporting the operations of the International Space Station despite government shutdown.

NASA has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget its plan for an orderly shutdown of operations if there is no budget in place. During a shutdown, most NASA operations would cease and most employees would be furloughed, with the exception of operations and personnel needed to protect life and property.

The optimism of de-extinction science in a warming world.

A once-impossible new technique creates fusion energy with powerful lasers and without radioactive fuel.

Behind the broad, swift market slide of 2018 is an underlying new reality: Roughly 85% of all trading is on autopilot—controlled by machines, models, or passive investing formulas, creating an unprecedented trading herd that moves in unison and is blazingly fast.

The majority of trades come from machines, models, or passive investing formulas that move in unison and blazingly fast. This quarter’s sharp declines are symptoms of the modern market’s sensitivities, the same ones that drove gains through the first three-quarters of the year.

A series of remarkable astronomical images have been released by a team of scientists.

Stunning new images of young planetary systems create a profound cosmic perspective.

• By Caleb A. Scharf on December 13, 2018

Imagine reading by plant light, and glow-in-the-dark trees instead of street lamps. That’s on the horizon thanks to these engineers.