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Turns out, organisms may be using quantum mechanics to gain evolutionary advantages.
Scientists come up with an explanation for the strange dimming of Tabby’s star and it doesn’t involve aliens.
The medal-winning Norwegian team had a most unusual explanation for why their speed skaters wore blue. Is there any science to back it up? Every four years, the Olympics come around, […]
One researcher called it “the ultimate in the miniaturization of machinery.”
If December’s best natural sky show seems to get better every year, it isn’t your imagination. It’s science, and it’s spectacular! Every year, the Earth travels some 940 million kilometers […]
A Clinton Global Initiative event at Northeastern University highlights the work of its alums.
Harnessing the power of photosynthesis may be able to produce all the hydrogen for energy we need.
While it’s reasonable to trust that science will eventually answer our unsolved questions, assuming that it has all of the answers right now is not.
Many sci-fi technologies will remain in the realm of fiction unless physics changes. But some experiments could uncover just that! “Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us […]
Here’s the psychology that explains why many economists prefer to be narrowly right yet broadly wrong (they suffer from professional “rigor distortis”).
We’ve all heard the number: 4.5 billion years. But how do we know, and how certain are we that the Earth and Sun are the same age? Billions of years ago, […]
A physicist demonstrates how life may be a predictable product of thermodynamics.
A new study finds that narwhals race dive deep with their hearts barely beating as they escape humans.
Caltech engineers create a stable ring of plasma in the air, a feat thought impossible.
Drop a chunk of sodium metal into water, and a violent reaction ensues. But it’s more than just chemistry at play. “Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields […]
Weatherman Alan Sealls of WKRG in Mobile, Alabama knows how to explain Hurricane Irma.
Researchers create a new form of matter, first theorized 50 years ago.
Another scintillating installment of Comment of the Week is here. Did you make the cut?
Sedna could be the very first known object from the Inner Oort Cloud. But time is running out to create and launch a mission. In 2003, scientists discovered an object beyond […]
And if we did, what would happen if you fell in? Out in the countryside of rural America, you can find all sorts of attractions that are too-good-to-be-true. One of the […]
Evidence from recent research suggests that it does matter where a calorie comes from because its source influences the intake of the next calorie.
When the past and future are no longer connected, some pretty weird stuff happens.
Physicists propose a new kind of space structure that can allow information to escape from black holes.
Imagine charging your phone using the power of your heart.
Even before we have the James Webb Space Telescope, a controversy over when the first stars formed is growing. As far back as our most powerful telescopes have ever looked, we’ve […]
The weather in most parts of Russia forces drivers to face harsh conditions — snow, mud, and poor visibility. It’s in this environment that Cognitive Technologies saw an opportunity.
Holes, lines, or even walls in space aren’t just fiction; they could actually exist! “Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.” –Francois de La Rochefoucauld The biggest lesson […]
A classic essay defines different ways to disagree, from the worst to the best, with lessons that ring true in our divisive times.