Jeff Tollefson, Nature The Sun shone brightly on Livermore, California, on 8 June 2011, when researchers charged up the world's largest laser for its first major fusion experiment. It might...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:20
Stephanie Pappas, Live Science H5N1 bird flu is spreading through poultry and cattle in the United States, and some cases have been reported in people. No human-to-human spread of the...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:20
Nancy W. Stauffer, Mass Institute of Technology In 2015, 195 nations plus the European Union signed the Paris Agreement and pledged to undertake plans designed to limit the global...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:50:35
Tom Hawking, Popular Science You see a cat chasing a mouse. You probably don't realize it, but as soon as you catch sight of this scene unfolding, your brain makes a key distinction between...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:19
Jenny McGrath, BI It's been a year since
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:19
Ethan Siegel, Big Think When it comes to the Universe, what you can easily see isn't always reflective of all there is. It's one of the important reasons why theories and...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:18
Isaac Schultz, Gizmodo Talk about a blast from the past: A team of researchers in Arizona discovered a bronze cannon that they're associating with conquistador Francisco Vázquez de...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:18
Terry F. Yosie, Issues in Science & Technology For the past half century, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has applied a common regulatory framework to the implementation of...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:17
Nick Tiller, Skeptical Inquirer Hippocrates was soaking in the Grecian hot baths and advocating their health benefits about 2,500 years before scientists began studying heat therapy in the...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:17
Robert Lea, Advanced Science News Researchers have examined the
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:17
Elizabeth Gibney, Nature Two teams of CERN physicists are racing to perform an extraordinary feat: transporting
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:16
Jonathan O'Callaghan, Horizon The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow bigger and bigger until they become...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:16
Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the organization that administers America's Spec Ops forces, says it will soon start clinical trials of an...
Published: 2021-07-19 14:08:43
Tim McMillan, Debrief In a study just published in the journal
Published: 2021-07-19 13:08:52
Fermin Koop, ZME Sci Among the many things the coronavirus pandemic has affected, our work-life balance has also taken a hit. Most people are simultaneously working from home while doing...
Published: 2021-07-19 14:08:43
Kiverstein, Rietveld, Denys, Aeon A mother in her mid-20s begins to have recurring thoughts of physically harming her baby. These thoughts make no sense to her. She deeply loves her baby,...
Published: 2021-07-19 14:08:43
Michael Byrne, Motherboard In some large part, science is powerful not because of ideas but because of how it treats ideas. Science asks, prove it. The distinction is what...
Published: 2023-04-21 16:38:30
Amanda Baker, Scientific American Have you ever smelled something so familiar that it felt like you were transported back through time into one of your earlier memories? Have freshly baked...
Published: 2014-12-27 10:36:20
Lois Parshley, Popular Science In 1958, the Smithsonian Institution received a plain paper package in the mail. The only hint of its contents was the insurance on the brown carton,...
Published: 2014-12-25 21:54:04
Nancy Szokan, WaPo The ancient kings David and
Published: 2014-12-24 12:33:36
UCLA New UCLA research indicates that lost memories can be restored. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimerâ??s disease.
Published: 2014-12-23 10:50:14
Brian Greene, Smithsonian On October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes...
Published: 2014-12-19 06:39:46
Ethan Siegel, Starts with a Bang! Observers are the necessary, but unliked, bouncers in the elegant nightclub of ...
Published: 2014-12-19 06:39:29
NASA NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample...
Published: 2014-12-17 19:54:52
Ethan Siegel, Starts with a Bang! But we are not quite at the end of time yet! Itâ??s only the end of the week, which means itâ??s time for another Ask Ethan, and to give...
Published: 2014-12-15 20:28:16
K. Sjogren, SciNordic Danish scientists have solved the quantum mechanics problem that has been teasing them since the 1930s: how to calculate real life behaviour of atoms.The...
Published: 2014-12-14 22:36:28
Ian O'Neill, D-News As we seek out planets orbiting stars inside their habitable zones, astronomical techniques are becoming so sophisticated that, one day, we may be able to probe the...
Published: 2014-12-13 07:02:32
Ferris Jabr, Aeon Fay-Wei Li stepped out of his car and looked around. There was not much to see aside from an old wooden fence and a soggy ditch strewn with roadside detritus. Could this...
Published: 2014-12-13 07:02:05
University of California-Berkeley While Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have discovered...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:48:31
Universitat Auto de Barcelona A study led by researchers from the UAB and the University La Sapienza in Rome indicates that during the Late Neolithic, between 7000 and 5000 BCE, the fully...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:48:30
EurekAlert! All cultures, however primitive, have used glues, resins and pitches obtained from various plants for their mechanical or medicinal properties. Neanderthals were no...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:48:30
Univ of Birmingham Cooking is a key source of indoor air pollution and, while plenty of research has been done to show the energy-efficiencies available with air-frying, less...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:48:29
EurekAlert! Not all plastics are equal — some types and colors are easier to recycle than others. For instance, black foam and black coffee lids, which are often made of polystyrene,...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:02
Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate Akmola Region, Kazakhstan—The highway running north toward the Russian border is long and straight, a black line streaking across a snowy flatness. A clutch...
Published: 2024-11-27 09:11:58
Ross Koningstein, IEEE Spectrum In 2014 I went to my managers with an audacious proposal: Let's create a
Published: 2024-11-27 03:49:02
Sarah DeWeerdt, Anthro Establishing "green flight paths" on key long-haul airline routes could help speed the uptake of sustainable aviation fuels, according to a new proposal. The...
Published: 2024-11-27 03:50:52
Seaver Wang, Breakthrough Political pundits and cartoonists alike have long joked that contrary to voters' implicit expectations, policymakers cannot simply turn a dial labeled "the...
Published: 2024-11-27 12:11:32
Gemma Handy, BBC When large swathes of invasive seaweed started washing up on Caribbean beaches in 2011, local residents were perplexed. Soon, mounds of unsightly sargassum - carried...
Published: 2024-11-27 00:11:35
Emma Bryce, Anthro Land use is one of the best tools we have to lock away tons of carbon dioxide and achieve our climate goals. But it's also crucial for growing food. Can these two future...
Published: 2024-11-26 05:11:15
Lela Nargi, Knowable Magazine Ralph Loya was pretty sure he was going to lose the corn. His farm had been scorched by El Paso's hottest-ever June and second-hottest August; the West Texas...
Published: 2024-11-26 07:28:22
Xiaoying You, BBC In a sleepy village on the fringes of Shanghai, China's megacity of 25 million people, a hulking green building surrounded by a labyrinth...
Published: 2024-11-25 08:11:00
Juzel Lloyd, The Breakthrough Institute Jamaica's nuclear power ambitions may reset the standard for what an island energy transition looks like. Jamaica
Published: 2024-11-25 07:10:57
Roger Pielke, Jr., Hon Broker He's a climate denier! That is the standard reaction of many in the climate lobby when encountering views on climate and energy deviating from the...
Published: 2024-11-23 11:11:21
Ohio State University Chemists have developed a novel way to capture and convert carbon dioxide into methane, suggesting that future gas emissions could be converted into an...
Published: 2024-11-23 06:11:22