Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
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Say hello to your new colleague, the Workplace Environment Architect.
Solving the supply chain crisis before the global economy tanks is going to require many creative approaches. Flexport’s Ryan Petersen has one that just might work.
At its biggest for the next 15 years, it’s still much smaller than the Moon. On October 6, 2020, Mars makes its closest approach to Earth until 2035. Earth orbits in […]
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While other factors exist, sexual prowess appears to have helped determine the role of Protoceratops frills.
A tiny, perfectly preserved 3D fossil from Argentina tells us more about an early snake.
A brief passage from a recent UN report describes what could be the first-known case of an autonomous weapon, powered by artificial intelligence, killing in the battlefield.
The fruits of long-term thinking will reveal themselves in five or ten or 30 years, when you’ve created the future you’ve always wanted.
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Planets can emit radio waves. For the first time, we’ve picked them up from outside the solar system.
How do these little beasties detect light anyway?
Researchers find a key clue to the evolution of bony fish and tetrapods.
Our brains did not evolve to shop on Amazon.
What we’ve seen isn’t necessarily what we get, but the most common world doesn’t look like ours. There’s a very common myth out there in astronomy: the idea that the Sun […]
There was a time in the Universe before we formed stars. Here’s how we’re exploring it. When we look out at the Universe today, we see that it’s full of […]
Something isn’t adding up, but it isn’t a calibration error. It’s been nearly 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. Ever since, the scientists who study the […]
Galactic archaeology has uncovered a spectacular find: the Milky Way already existed more than 13 billion years ago.
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
Are “humanized” pigs the future of medical research?
Robot developers adapt the behavior of worm “blobs”.
The treatment is here, but are we ready?
And either way, is energy or information conserved? When two things in the Universe that “always” occur meet one another, how do you know which one will win? Gravitational waves, […]
If you’re wondering whether the blast wave or the radiation would kill us first, you’re asking the wrong question. As far as raw explosive power goes, no other cataclysm in […]
A new study shows you should put down the toilet lid when flushing to avoid coronavirus and other illnesses.
From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.
The young man died nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii.
In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here’s what we’ve learned.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
An overfished planet needs a better solution. Fortunately, it’s coming.