Carbon dating allows us to know exactly when ice was melted for drinking water in pre-Columbian America.
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You might be inclined to modify gravity instead, but those ideas have grossly unequal evidence supporting them. What is it, exactly, that you’re supposed to do when the predictions of […]
Surprising as it may seem, we are all very good at denial. Negation, however, is a different phenomena.
A study published Friday tested how well 14 commonly available face masks blocked the emission of respiratory droplets as people were speaking.
MRI scans show that hunger and loneliness cause cravings in the same area, which suggests socialization is a need.
Gain-of-function mutation research may help predict the next pandemic — or, critics argue, cause one.
Researchers explore the “complex web of connections” in your brain that allows you to make split second decisions.
Complex organisms and living worlds couldn’t exist without these transitions. You couldn’t make the Universe we have today if everything were always the same. Although many philosophically favored the idea […]
Water may be far more abundant on the lunar surface than previously thought.
You never know what you’re going to find when you look somewhere new for the first time. Approximately 4600 feet (1400 meters) underground, beneath the Italian mountain known as Gran Sasso, […]
Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals that are produced when a plant is damaged.
More than 70% of college students procrastinate
Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.
Only 17 years after its discovery have we learned we’re safe from asteroid Apophis. Ever since its 2004 discovery, asteroid 99942 Apophis has threatened planet Earth. Asteroid Apophis has been measured […]
Have we already found dark matter? It may be hiding in existing data, says a study.
Watch as the small mirror joins millions of other pieces of space junk currently orbiting the planet.
Reading code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.
Russian movies continue to be used as a mouthpiece for the country’s political leadership.
A supernova exploded near Earth about 2.5 million years ago, possibly causing an extinction event.
Astrophysics has probed a test of a fundamental law, ‘Lorentz invariance,’ well beyond the LHC’s limits. Einstein is still right. The greatest scientific legacy that Albert Einstein left us is this: […]
Astronomers find these five chapters to be a handy way of conceiving the universe’s incredibly long lifespan.
To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” Frank Wilczek writes in a new book.
Since the late 1800s, what we know has advanced light years ahead.
Mosquitoes can taste your blood using unique sensory abilities. Can we use that to keep them off us?
We’ve come fantastically far in our understanding of the distant Universe. Here’s how we’ll go even farther. Sometime in 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will launch, deploy, and begin science […]
It turns out light can not only be twisted, but at different speeds.
Writers, filmmakers, and mythologizing biographers tend to imagine innovation originates with a lone genius who has “the spark,” that light-bulb moment when the path from inspiration to world-altering invention reveals […]
Carbonized papyrus scrolls may again see the light after thousands of years.
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]