Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.
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The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.
Rare and costly paints have shaped art history in unforeseen ways. Mummy brown caused one artist to bury his paint.
From “Thompson’s violinist” to the “Experience Machine,” these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.
The world is aging, and with age comes vision decline. New research may have found how to improve eyesight in an accessible way.
Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what’s the maximum lifetime for a star?
Let’s hope that squid don’t evolve lungs and legs, or humanity might be in real trouble.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.
Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986, finding a bland, featureless world. Now, in 2023, JWST’s sights are similar. There’s a reason for that.
An X-ray offers a glimpse into the painter’s early years.
An argument for emphasis on subjective experience.
Once at the pinnacle of Amsterdam’s art scene, Rembrandt van Rijn eventually found himself outcompeted by his own students.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
Lab experiments showed Caribbean box jellyfish are quick studies of their environment.
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
Local researchers identify a striking rainbow-colored fairy wrasse found off the coast of the Maldives as a fish species all its own.
The evolution of quantum technology is far from over.
Most of us have heard that the Sun is an ordinary, typical, unremarkable star. But science shows we’re actually anything but average.
The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
Is it better to be the oldest sibling, the youngest, or in the middle?
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
Despite many ultra-distant galaxy candidates found with JWST, we still haven’t seen anything from the Universe’s first 250 million years.
A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.
Like sneaking veggies into dessert, these board games teach STEM, strategy, and executive functions through the joys of play.