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A recent study of Iceland’s Krafla volcanic caldera suggests hidden magma pools may be lurking under many of the world’s volcanic systems.
Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology.
Leftover Cold War-era bunkers are still kept in a state of readiness to protect the population from nuclear war.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.
Scientists find routes using arches of chaos that can lead to much faster space travel.
Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which “infinity” wins?
We just observed the first ‘lunar formation’ in an exoplanetary system. This one image, above, is the first to show moons actively forming around a planet. This colourful image shows […]
We also don’t know how Tylenol works. But it does work.
Travel half the distance to your destination, and there’s always another half to go. Despite Zeno’s Paradox, you always arrive right on time.
Gravitation, all on its own, can reveal what’s present in the cosmos like nothing else.
You know that ghostly feeling that someone is nearby even though nobody is? It could be a trick of neural timing.
These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.
The researchers and patients are excited to see if color vision will develop over time.
Alibaba has played a key role in China’s meteoric economic rise.
Age ain’t nothing but a number, but “inflammatory age” may be real.
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth’s crust.
The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”
A gigantic bacterium evolved differently than fundamental models of biology would have predicted. Simply put, these bacteria shouldn’t exist.
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
When we feel sick, it’s not just the pathogen to blame. Our brain cranks up the temperature, and the neurons responsible finally have been found.
Veteran investor Sujal Patel, co-founder and CEO of Nautilus Biotechnology, helps us sift golden nuggets from the loose shale of entrepreneurship.
The rewards price to get a free cup of hot coffee at Starbucks is going up.
These hard-to-finish books are still worth the effort.
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.
It’s like combining Google Translate with a time machine.
Not too hot, not too cold…