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Brown noise, the better-known white noise, and even pink noise are all sonic hues.

SARS-CoV-2 first emerged in humans in 2019. Despite much noise generated by lab leak proponents, the evidence indicates a natural origin.

The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant’s pain.

A recent study highlights the astounding adaptability of the human brain.

How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.

Meaningful pictures are assembled from meaningless noise.

It’s the paradoxical observation that the more we try to process, the less we actually can.

Here in the 21st century, quantum computing is quickly going from a dream to a reality. But what’s hype, and what’s actually true?

Eric Olson — CEO and co-founder of Consensus — takes his cues from the university of legendary coaches.

Forget the AI buzzwords. Ross Stevenson dives into how L&D teams can actually use AI to save time, solve real problems, and keep learning human.

Humanity’s newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.

From inside our Solar System, zodiacal light prevents us from seeing true darkness. From billions of miles away, New Horizons finally can.

There’s a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.

It has already been trialed in people and could give us a better way to analyze and stimulate the brain.

MIT Scientist Jason Soderblom describes how the NASA mission will study the geology and composition of the surface of Jupiter’s water-rich moon and assess its astrobiological potential.

Learning to decode complex communication on Earth may give us a leg up if intelligent life from space makes contact.

All telescopes are fundamentally limited in what they can see. JWST reveals more distant galaxies than Hubble, but still can’t see them all.

Hypersonic aircraft can fly at least five times the speed of sound. They would make for terrifying weapons.

Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.

So far, two papers have been retracted, and a third is under investigation. Accusations of plagiarism appear convincing.

The robot can drive heavy steal beams into the ground at a rate of 1 per 73 seconds, which will help expedite solar farm construction.

Music and sounds only seem to reduce pain in mice when played at a specific volume.

Kaelynn Partlow shares her story about life with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia, and how finding the right diagnosis helped her embrace her neurodivergent identity.

Apart from the energy needed to flip the switch, no other energy is needed to transmit the information.

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will have a light-collecting power 10 times greater than today’s best telescope.

It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.

The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.

Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?

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We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world’s greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.