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But most city dwellers weren’t seeing the science — they were seeing something out of Blade Runner.
For some reason, the bodies of deceased monks stay “fresh” for a long time.
Smallpox, Ebola, HIV, influenza, the plague, malaria, and a whole host of terrible bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites were cooked up by Mother Nature, all on her own. Apparently, Mother Nature hasn’t banned gain-of-function research.
The EmDrive turns out to be the “um…” drive after all, as a new study dubs any previous encouraging EmDrive results “false positives.”
Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions.
A new brain imaging study explored how different levels of the brain’s excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters are linked to math abilities.
Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That’s the best thing that ever happened to us.
The Twin Jet nebula, shown here, is a stunning example of a bipolar preplanetary nebula. At the center, a dying star is in the final stages of life where it […]
Why are the rest masses of fundamental particles related like this? When it comes to the nature of matter in the Universe, the Standard Model describes the known elementary particles perfectly […]
In determining what qualifies as solid science, controversy is inevitable.
Higher education, particularly for fields like filmmaking, is in big trouble when a world-class education can be found online cheaply or even for free.
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
Societal breakdown, whether real or imagined, can lead to dramatic responses — like blood-sucking vampires.
Bernini created art for 8 different popes. In the process, he helped reinforce and redefine Christianity’s visual culture.
Psychedelics have been shown to help reduce depression. This study may show us why.
It’s the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
Was this a moment when humans interbred with Neanderthals?
Not nearly well enough. And we should all be concerned. In 1859, the science of solar physics truly began with the largest eruption in recorded history: the Carrington event. Prior […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will truly usher in a new era of astronomy. If you want to find the very first galaxy of all, you have to understand not […]
It is time to give the Russian cosmologist the credit he deserves.
This small-scale study may have uncovered a new link between the peripheral nerve system and autism.
Over the coming decades, over 100,000 new satellites are expected. For countless millennia, whenever we were faced with a clear, cloudless, moonless night, all of humanity was able to witness […]
Robot developers adapt the behavior of worm “blobs”.
Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must’ve been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here’s how cosmic inflation solves it.
Are the stellar remnants in our cosmic backyard actually our parents and grandparents?
If there are cracks in Einstein’s theory, this is how to find them. Is Einstein’s most powerful theory, General Relativity, always correct? Or will there come a point where it breaks […]
In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that even black holes don’t live forever, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate. Here’s how.
The Big Bang is our accepted origin of the Universe. But is there another possibility? Since the mid-1960s and the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background, the Big Bang has […]
When facing a predator, single cells sometimes unite to defend themselves, paving the way for more complex multicellular life forms to evolve.