The answer may lie in the particular way sand forms on Titan.
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Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.
From wearable electronics to microscopic sensors to telemedicine, new advances like graphene and supercapacitors are bringing “impossible” electronics to life.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.
Impressive but deadly physics underlie catastrophic eruptions.
A chemist explains the real reason your family dinner is such a risky ordeal.
How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
The James Webb Space Telescope finally could answer the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe.
Ancient helium-3 from the dawn of time leaks from the Earth, offering clues to our planet’s formation. A key question is where it leaks from.
Einstein called his idea “abominable,” but the world of physics came around to embracing the views of Georges Lemaître.
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
Once at the pinnacle of Amsterdam’s art scene, Rembrandt van Rijn eventually found himself outcompeted by his own students.
The multiverse pushes beyond the limits of the scientific method. From our vantage point in the Universe, we cannot know if it’s real.
Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
Recent high-profile instances of fraud in psychology have led some to wonder if there’s anything useful about the field at all.
Most cities reeked of death, defecation, and industrial waste. Still, focusing only on stench means turning a blind eye (or nose) to the many other smells that helped shape human history.
Cosmology is unlike other sciences. When our view of the Universe changes, so does our understanding of philosophy and science itself.
Some ozone experts seriously doubt the findings.
Due to a crust of carbon, the absence of oxygen, and constant bombardment from meteorites, the planet Mercury may be littered with diamonds.
Although social paranoia is more common than clinical paranoia, studies suggests that American society isn’t any more conspiratorial than it has been in the past.
Hundreds of these cannabis-related chemicals now exist, both natural and synthetic, inspiring researchers in search of medical breakthroughs.
A company in England has made a test that picks out the compounds from breath that reveal if people have liver disease.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
Out of sight, but not out of mind.
Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.
Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.
Not everything that claims to be “scientific” actually is. There are five features of scientifically rigorous studies.
“This fourth wave will be worse than it’s ever been before.”