Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.
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Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.
Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?
Helplessness isn’t learned — it’s an instinctual response that can be overcome.
We will believe in AGI when it calls on Facetime.
If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
Since 1962, humanity has been sending messages into space with the intent to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Are those efforts worth the risks?
Quantum mechanics has taught us that even empty space contains energy. “Negative energy” is the state of having less energy than empty space.
People who go ballistic over other people’s eating sounds aren’t just cranky — they have misophonia.
Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
Tasting sounds and hearing colors.
The debate goes back at least 400 years.
The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
Developing an awareness of and an appreciation for science is what we all truly need, not what we’ve been doing.
In the future, driving an app across a bridge could let engineers know how safe it is.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
‘Dorozoku’ map crowd-sources the whereabouts of noisy kids in Japan – but who’s being anti-social here, exactly?
Historians have been able to piece together a clear picture of how the average Roman citizen spent their waking hours.
Why, exactly, don’t you trust that person’s opinion?
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.