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75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in science. But what are they? One of the major goals of science is to describe our reality as accurately as possible. […]
Entropy always increases, but that doesn’t mean it was zero to start with. One of the most inviolable laws in the Universe is the second law of thermodynamics: that in any […]
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
One bill hopes to repeal the crime of selling sex and expand social services; the other would legalize the entire sex trade.
Is the Universe the same everywhere? Or are there truly ‘special places’ around? For practically all of human history, one assumption about our place in the Universe had long gone unchallenged: […]
Teaching your child metacognitive techniques can improve their learning and life skills.
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
Writers, filmmakers, and mythologizing biographers tend to imagine innovation originates with a lone genius who has “the spark,” that light-bulb moment when the path from inspiration to world-altering invention reveals […]
Researchers were even able store and read a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file in the fabric.
A study says nature’s candy can be a valuable supplement to sunblock.
We love a good heist movie, but our favorite part is not the caper. It’s building the team. The brilliant thief—just out of jail to do one more job, he […]
“The function of private media is to make money for the people who own the media. It is a business,” Sanders said.
It could lead to a massive uptake in those previously hesitant.
Scientists put the most mysterious force in the Universe to the ultimate test. When it comes to the Universe, it’s easy to make the incorrect assumption that what we see is […]
Their ear structures were not that different from ours.
Clinical trials at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research focus on stabilizing cognitive loss and alleviating the psychotic symptoms that change our loved ones.
A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.
Sir Ken Robinson died on August 21 of cancer at the age of 70.
If secrets are a kind of poison, confession is the antidote.
Even before the Big Bang, energetic radiation was always present. When it comes to the physical Universe, the notion of “nothing” may truly be possible only in theory, not in […]
Smiling makes us feel happier. If you strike a superhero pose, you’ll feel more assertive and confident in your abilities. We all have a limited pool of self-control that can […]
Australian researchers figure out a new way to apply extreme pressure and squeeze out diamonds.
As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.