Most waves need a medium to travel through. But the way that light and gravitational waves travel shows that space can’t be a medium at all.
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Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.
The cat-and-mouse game between China and the world’s semiconductor companies is already having enormous consequences.
Pugs are funny and cute, but that is because we have bred them intentionally to have debilitating genetic mutations. Is that ethical?
A photographer captured Bern’s eclectic and charming feline structures.
A new SETI study shows how far the field of technosignatures has come.
The tiniest galaxies of all are the most susceptible to violence by their larger, bullying siblings. That’s why we need them in isolation.
A new technique that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
The evolution of quantum technology is far from over.
Despite a reputation for catastrophe and cat killings, curiosity is a beneficial drive that improves our lives and well-being.
Katie Kermode — a memory athlete with four world records — tells Big Think about her unique spin on an ancient technique to memorize unfathomably long lists of information.
HaptX gloves provide high-fidelity touch feedback of virtual spaces (and they look cool, too).
The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.
DUNE is designed to detect the Universe’s most antisocial particle: the neutrino.
“Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
The multiverse is an idea that has gained a lot of traction in popular culture. But what does science have to say about it?
People who rate themselves as highly knowledgeable about cats are more likely to interact with cats in ways they don’t like.
Dogs are seen as more likely to leap without looking – possibly a trait shared with their owners.
It’s knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it’s not magic that powers AI though; it’s just math and data.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
Whether it’s LeBron’s shooting patterns or your corporate AI strategy, actionable insights are the key to turning data into meaningful results.
You can learn a lot about life through literature’s most unrespectable and heinous characters.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
The results of a recent study found that genetically engineering cats could be a solution to eliminating cat allergies.
A poignant, 2,000-year-old burial in northern Italy could be the latest evidence of an ancient friendship.
For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.
Toxoplasmosis, which results from a chance encounter with a cougar and the parasite it carries, can push a wolf to seek alpha status.