Each December, the Geminid meteor shower puts on a show for skywatchers across Earth. With a new Moon at 2023’s peak, it’ll be outstanding!
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New tests to detect species being traded, as well as population studies, aim to help save them.
A new study enhanced color vision for individuals with the most common type of red-green color blindness.
With its very first deep-field view of the Universe now released, the James Webb Space Telescope has shown us our cosmos as never before.
Almost 100 years ago, an asymmetric pathology led Dirac to postulate the positron. A similar pathology could lead us to supersymmetry.
Even though no human has stepped foot on the Moon’s surface in 50 years, the evidence of our presence there remains unambiguous.
Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?
Long assumed to be a devoted vegetarian, ancient sloths were fine with some meat.
The most iconic, longest-lived space telescope of all, NASA’s Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks. Here’s why.
Environmental activists want us to feel “flight shame” if we can take a train, instead. But this isn’t entirely realistic, even in Europe.
It’s been precisely 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang occurred. Here’s how we know.
The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
With three colors and three anticolors, there aren’t actually nine gluons; only eight. One of the most puzzling features of the Universe is the strong nuclear force. Inside every proton or […]
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?
Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.
According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
A study uses sugar water experiments to show that hummingbirds can see colors invisible to us.
Although many of Einstein’s papers revolutionized physics, there’s one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.
How can you maximize the amount of love and happiness in your life? One of history’s greatest scientists found the answer: with math.
These bizarre mollusks have the ability to regenerate their bodies and to absorb other organisms’ attributes.
What makes a face trustworthy, anyway?
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”
The engineer working on Google’s AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
The meaning of the cryptic text has eluded scholars for centuries. Their latest efforts include computational analyses seeking new insights into the medieval enigma.
The matter that creates black holes won’t be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.
A new method could make holograms for virtual reality, 3D printing, and more. You can even run it can run on a smartphone.