It is generally ineffective, occasionally poisonous, and driving numerous species to the brink of extinction.
Search Results
You searched for: Systems
And could Earth-based life provide the seeds for biology elsewhere? Today, on Earth, there’s an enormous variety and diversity of life on our planet. Every single surviving lifeform appears, in […]
A study shows that the brains of lonely individuals respond in odd ways to visual stimuli, while those of non-lonely people react similarly.
Exile is a kind of death of who you once were.
When migraine and tension-headache patients overuse their medications, they can actually trigger more headaches.
The term “zero-point energy” has at least two meanings, one that is innocuous and one that is a great deal sexier (and scammier).
LIGO can detect the inspirals and mergers of the lowest-mass black holes, but not the biggest ones. Here’s how pulsars can help.
Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.
Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome?
Arguments on social media are notorious. Can practicing intellectual humility make us smarter and happier? Science says yes.
The president identified developing MCED tests as a priority for the Cancer Moonshot.
The US prison system continues to fail, so why does it still exist?
▸
18 min
—
with
For the very first time, an AR contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. And it has about 30 times the pixel density of an iPhone.
By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.
An independent researcher looks into why there’s such strong opposition to her research.
For the fewer than 50 people with this blood type, finding a blood transfusion could be extremely difficult.
Jokes so cheesy even French philosophers will love them.
Music is part of the human experience, which is why some philosophers have written about it. Some had wacky ideas.
One newly discovered, ancient star has a composition unlike any other. Explaining its existence is already blowing astronomers’ minds.
It rotates on its axis, revolves around the Sun, moves throughout the Milky Way, and gets carried by our galaxy all throughout space.
When high-anxiety situations arise in the workplace, we tend to react by fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning — but there’s a hidden fifth option.
Man seeking meaningful relationship at the intersection of on-demand empathy and Rule 34.
Before anesthetics, some patients would die of the pain on the operating table.
A battle between different kinds of love.
You’ll be able to sleep through a war.
It’s a useful fiction — but it’s still fiction.
The minimum wage is a popular policy, but it’s not the only way governments have tried to help workers secure a decent living.
Quarterback Tom Brady was initially overlooked by NFL scouts, but he had vast hidden reserves of character.
An optical telescope with a massive 20-foot (6-meter) mirror has an eye-popping price tag of $11 billion.