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Circle spoofing is an advanced form of GPS manipulation – but nobody knows exactly how, or why.
Even the most unorthodox posthumous plans have their own historical, spiritual, and scientific significance.
Scientists should be cautious when expressing an opinion based on little more than speculation.
Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.
Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.
It doesn’t have to be a science-fiction dream. For as long as human beings have been watching the night sky, we’ve dreamed of visiting other worlds and truly seeing what’s […]
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
Non-avian dinosaurs were thought terrestrially bound, but newly unearthed fossils suggest they conquered prehistoric waters, too.
The opening lines of Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News lay bare the culture of denial in the US.
An astrophysicist proposes new designs for stellar engines that can move a solar system.
Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.
Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.
‘Kanal Istanbul’ would create a second Bosporus – and immortalize its creator.
Avi Loeb says it’s aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here’s why. In 2017, an astronomical event occurred that was unlike any other: for the first time, we observed an object that […]
Having grown kids still at home is not likely to do you, or them, any permanent harm.
Can passenger airships make a triumphantly ‘green’ comeback?
O.T. Olsen’s gorgeous ‘Piscatorial Atlas’ (1883) describes a world now destroyed and forgotten
Alexandre Dumas’ famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.
The few seconds of nuclear explosion opening shots in Godzilla alone required more than 6.5 times the entire budget of the monster movie they ended up in.
Atop certain glaciers are herds of small mossy balls that somehow move together when no one’s looking.
An elegant, 400-year-old means of navigating the stars takes flight.
Two of our biggest science-fiction dreams might not remain fiction for much longer. Here’s how 21st-century science could make it real. For as long as human beings have looked up at […]
Unfortunately, it’s getting easier to predict what might happen to cryptocurrencies when the economy takes a nosedive.
One silver lining of the pandemic: The value of common sense, facts and rational decisions increases.
If everything eventually dies and decays, is there a way to prolong the inevitable? Our Universe, as it exists today, puts us in an incredibly privileged position. Had we come […]
The net famously failed to work as planned last year. Now, a new version is making waves.
The object, originally dubbed “Ultima Thule,” was renamed to “Arrokoth” due to the connection between the word “Thule” and the Nazis.
“You’re all going to die” was one typical comment about the all-woman crew of the sailing ship Maiden, the first of its kind in the Whitbread round-the-world race. 30 years later, its captain Tracy Edwards, MBE reflects on the documentary MAIDEN and an act of will and teamwork that changed the world.
The university model needs to evolve.