Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.
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In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
Using image analysis tools developed for astronomy, researchers are predicting cancer therapy responses.
An expert explains the emerging science of nutrigenomics.
And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider “explaining what you know” to an actual expert in the field.
New studies find the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the most “pristine” ever discovered.
Fossils of ancient creatures doing anything are rare. This one is absolutely unique.
There was less than a 2 second delay between gravitational waves and light, but that’s incredibly meaningful. There’s an important rule in relativity that — as far as we know — all objects must […]
With just a few more neutron star mergers, we’ll have the best constraints of all-time. How fast is the Universe expanding? Ever since the expanding Universe was first discovered nearly […]
As important as his Nobel Prize-winning technical accomplishments was his ability to communicate to the public.
When we look at the night sky, we may see junk instead of stars.
One day, we could fly across the U.S. in half an hour. A state-of-the-art hypersonic flight testing facility at UTSA could help make that dream a reality.
We have two ways of measuring the expansion rate. Here’s the harder one. If you want to understand where our Universe came from and where it’s going, you need to measure […]
Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.
Gun violence is a public health crisis that is notoriously difficult to study because of politics. Finally, a new research initiative has the green light to collect life-saving data.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
Although most of the Universe’s mass is dark matter, which gravitates just as well as normal matter, it still can’t make black holes.
Venus has far more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than Earth, which turned our sister planet into an inferno. But how did it get there?
Some scientists believe the lightning-produced frequencies may be connected to our brain waves, meditation, and hypnosis.
Parasites aren’t limited to just worms and ticks. Even some plants like to feed off others — and they perhaps could help fight invasive species.
Engineers borrowed the maple tree’s “helicopter” to design tiny, flying microchips, which perform various tasks while in whirling free fall.
The public sphere should be open to conflict.
The skeleton of the world’s oldest known shark attack victim exhibits telltale wounds.
There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.
This is a perversion of justice.
Even some philosophers don’t think highly of philosophy, but we need it now more than ever.
Are atoms, humans, planets, and galaxies destined to expand, too? One of the most revolutionary discoveries of the past century was the fact that the Universe is not eternally static and […]
Planets can emit radio waves. For the first time, we’ve picked them up from outside the solar system.