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Researchers are looking into what this fratboy fish of the Mexican underwater cave systems can teach us about sleep regulation. 

Only 5-15% of the World Ocean’s floor has been mapped. This herculean effort is set to tackle our planet’s last frontier.

The indirectly find was completely unexpected, and, if it holds up, could give the James Webb Space Telescope its first tantalizing target. In the quest to understand our Universe, and […]

The cryptocurrency bitcoin has been surging in the stock market. How does bitcoin work and will its success last?

Our dark matter searches have yet to yield a robust detection. Could we be looking in all the wrong places? There’s perhaps no more fundamental question to ask than, “what is […]

As wonderful as the evidence that supports or invalidates a theory is, it can never truly kill the ones that don’t work out. When it comes to science, we like to […]

Unless you can make a force that travels faster than the speed of light, a singularity is inevitable. The more mass you place into a small volume of space, the […]

Dammit, Spock, can your cold, calculating reason fathom the mysteries of the human heart?

Computer art does not rival human art. Rather, art created by artificial intelligence is at once a compliment to the human brain, and a corollary to the achievements of oil paintings and classical music.

Never draw a conclusion, no matter how ‘obvious,’ without doing the experiment first. We all love our most cherished ideas about how the world and the Universe works. Our conception […]

Don’t believe in dark matter or dark energy? Your view of the Universe just got a lot more difficult. If you ask an astrophysicist what’s the greatest puzzle in the […]

Different gut bacteria may affect differently the way energy is metabolized from foods.

Citing political tensions and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist have moved their symbolic Clock to its highest point since 1953

This list of 10 non-winners is 50% women, but 100% outrageous. In science, advances often come in great leaps. In hindsight, it’s easy to identify perhaps hundreds of small steps […]

Scotland and Canada also announced they’re getting off of coal completely.

BASE particle physicists have discovered a very precise way to examine antimatter.

New studies support the benefits of the Mediterrean Diet.

Infographics present the latest NHTSA statistics on the likelihood of having a fatal accident while commuting to and from work.

The study also discovered a downside to having a big brain.

For just a year’s worth of US Military budget, we could transform the world. The United States spends more on military spending than the next ten nations combined: an estimated $600 […]

We all want to help our children learn and a new study shows that encouraging curiosity might be the best way to do it.

Hunting trophies, by the thousands, lined the walls of his palaces and lodges.

Although there is much guesswork as to the future of artificial intelligence, today’s AI systems continue to be a boon for science.

While today profuse sweating is a social embarrassment, in the past it gave us an evolutionary advantage.

The Big Bang happened everywhere at once, but stars are a different story. The Universe, back at its inception, was almost perfectly identical everywhere. It was the same high temperature […]

If you think we know it all, you’ll never be ready for the next big breakthrough. When you’re taught the scientific method, you think of a neat procedure you can […]

It’s currently billions of tonnes of fossil fuels every year. With new (or existing!) technologies, we could literally change the world. “In terms of weapons, the best disarmament tool so far […]

A new form of light has been discovered.

If you want to go where no one has gone before, you have to make the investment. Here’s what last week’s launch means. If you want to send humans to Mars, […]

New research predicts the existence of completely different kind of stars.