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A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.
Fossils of ancient creatures doing anything are rare. This one is absolutely unique.
Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology.
Your brain is bursting with ideas, and most of them are … weird. You only have to recall the wonderfully bonkers notions of your childhood. Like the time you wanted […]
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
Russia’s cyberattacks against Ukraine have been prolific and ongoing for several years. The future of war may begin in cyberspace.
“It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research.”
For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.
A study finds that baby mammals dream about the world they are about to experience to prepare their senses.
Global inequality takes many forms, including who has lost the most children
Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
If measuring eLearning ROI is so important, why aren’t more organizations doing it?
Do you sound friendly? Hostile? And which voice would be more likely to buy something?
The Multiverse fuels some of the 21st century’s best fiction stories. But its supporting pillars are on extremely stable scientific footing.
George Washington, for example, was quite happy to engage in deception, if that deception would help protect the United States.
What started as a viral case of public shaming has morphed into a dark story involving internet sleuths, a criminal network, and the suspicious death of a 62-year-old man in St. Louis.
Engineers borrowed the maple tree’s “helicopter” to design tiny, flying microchips, which perform various tasks while in whirling free fall.
We bring multifaceted selves to our interactions, and in these interactions co-create each other again and again.
Professional astronomy images are the gold standard. But this Large Magellanic Cloud composite is the amateur community’s best image ever.
The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST’s eyes, astronomers found so much more.
Discovering fossilized insects is difficult, but a new find suggests a unique place to look.
In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.
The evidence for a link between time spent using technology and mental health is fatally flawed.
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
Asteroid Bennu is still far more likely to fly right by us than to make impact.
Some of the weirdest characters in Greek mythology were Athenian kings.
It uses radio waves to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.
Two new studies shed light on who first inhabited the islands, who replaced them, and how few people lived there.