Whiskey distillers could use gold ions to determine whether a cask is ready to be bottled or blended. John Fedele/Tetra Images/Getty By Nikk Ogasa October 27, 2022 at 7:00 am A new kind of “gold standard” could soon permeate the whiskey industry. Whiskey distillers...

In a small study, a new treatment for nightmare disorder left people with fewer nightmares over a longer period than the standard treatment. demaerre/Getty/iStock By Jackie Rocheleau October 27, 2022 at 11:00 am For people haunted by recurring nightmares, untroubled...

An afterglow of X-rays (pictured) following a brilliant burst of gamma rays was spotted by the Swift space telescope about an hour after the burst was detected. The rings are from X-rays scattering off dust in the Milky Way. Swift/NASA, A. Beardmore/Univ. of Leicester...

A mountain lion wearing a tracking collar leads her cubs through the brush. Collars on cats like these allow scientists to track where the animals go when wildfires ravage their territories. National Park Service By Bethany Brookshire October 28, 2022 at 9:00 am...

Wind turbines like these near a power plant near Bergheim, Germany, can pull CO 2 into their wakes in order to send it to machines that capture the greenhouse gas in the battle against climate change, simulations and a scaled-down wind tunnel test suggest. Volker...