Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.
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Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
Researchers speculate the famous monument was one of the world’s first solar calendars, possibly inspired by trade with ancient Egyptians.
Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.
Can spacekime help us make headway on some of the most pernicious inconsistencies in physics?
Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.
U.S. nuclear power plants are built to survive external attacks. Even missiles or a commercial aircraft strike would not cause a meltdown or radiation leak.
Information may not seem like something physical, yet it has become a central concern for physicists. A wonderful new book explores the importance of the “dataome” for the physical, biological, and human worlds.
A new technique for analyzing networks can tell who wields soft power.
When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as “analysis paralysis.” Why? Isn’t choice a good thing?
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.
The history of money is a history of convenience, and spending has never been easier than it is today.
The Big Theoretical Physics Problem At The Center Of The ‘Muon g-2’ Puzzle In early April, 2021, the experimental physics community announced an enormous victory: they had measured the muon’s magnetic […]
The paper-thin device may also someday be used to stimulate bone growth.
The most mental game in existence no longer requires fingers.
Astronomers possibly solve the mystery of how the enormous Oort cloud, with over 100 billion comet-like objects, was formed.
Cryptocurrency “news” is dominated by enthusiasts and haters. Surely, an intellectual discussion can be had.
What makes a face trustworthy, anyway?
Even with quantum teleportation and the existence of entangled quantum states, faster-than-light communication still remains impossible.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.
Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
An innovation’s value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
For decades, researchers have proposed that climate change and human-caused environmental destruction led to demographic collapse on Easter Island. That’s probably false, according to new research.
When we rely on the conscious mind alone, we lose; but when we listen to the body, we gain a winning edge.
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
When you wish upon a star, it probably makes a difference who you are.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
Maybe eyes really are windows into the soul — or at least into the brain, as a new study finds.