The unfamiliar landscape of America's medical past is marked by bizarre incidents, forgotten breakthroughs and selfless sacrifice.
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"She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
Mass determines a star’s fate… except when it doesn’t. Supernova events are common, visually spectacular astronomical cataclysms. In 1987, a supernova just ~168,000 light-years away was observed in the Large Magellanic […]
"You dream about these kinds of moments when you're a kid," said lead paleontologist David Schmidt.
What do communist dictators Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong have in common with U.S. Presidents like John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan? Hint: It’s the same thing they have in […]
The Sun produces a wide variety of particles and radiation throughout it, but all of its neutrinos are produced in the core: where nuclear reactions take place. The various reactions […]
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
Edinburgh University project geo-locates victims of Scottish 'witch-prickers' in the 16th and 17th century.
Psychedelics are going mainstream. Here's your reading list.
Experts plead with Americans to keep gatherings limited this Thanksgiving, while families devise new ways to celebrate the holidays.
And could Earth-based life provide the seeds for biology elsewhere? Today, on Earth, there’s an enormous variety and diversity of life on our planet. Every single surviving lifeform appears, in […]
What qualifies someone for the top position in American government?
For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a “best of” much. We don’t need to repeat the reasons here; it’s sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was […]
Time always moves in the same direction, but what if the Universe were contracting? As we step forward in time, a number of things always seem to happen together. Objects […]
An algorithm produced every possible melody. Now its creators want to destroy songwriter copyrights.
A computer coder and a lawyer decide they have a right to speak for all the songwriters that ever lived, those who are alive today, and all those yet to be born.
The concept of ‘relativistic mass’ has been around almost as long as relativity has. But is it valid? No matter who you are, where you are, or how quickly you’re moving, […]
There’s more light than we can account for, and we’ve just measured it robustly for the first time. When we look out at the darkest night skies available on Earth, even […]
Here's why scary stories were once an integral part of Christmas Eve festivities.
Thousands of people are experiencing severe pulmonary issues from vaping, and some are dying.
This exoplanet is 10 times hotter than any world we measured and shaped like a football.
From literature to physics, the annual Nobel Prizes aim to highlight the most groundbreaking achievements in every field.
Thinning forests in the Western United States can save billions of gallons of water per year and improve conservation efforts.
The Standard Model and General Relativity can’t be all there is. But how will we discover what lies beyond them? One of the biggest problems with physics is that, apart from […]
The results have startling implications about the evolution of psychopathy in humans.
Extraterrestrial life should arise fairly easily. But intelligence is another matter entirely. Planet Earth has been around for the past 4.5 billion years or so: about the last third of […]
"It is almost impossible to put into words the difference that Alan Turing made to society."
How an off-the-radar Nobel Prize brings us ever nearer to finding a major cure.
The 40th edition of the Starts With A Bang Podcast features Astronomer John O’Meara, the first pristine matter ever seen, and a 15-meter space telescope proposal! One of the great […]
Famous inventors and scientists submission to the daily grind
2019 offers an outstanding selection of books, accessories, and much more for the science-lover in your life! With each passing year, a whole slew of new scientific discoveries, refinements, and improvements […]