Oldest Gun Found in U.S. Tells Story of a Forgotten Battle

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 18:56:26

How the World's Biggest Laser Smashed a Fusion Record

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 18:56:26

How to Avoid Bird Flu

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 18:56:26

A Reality Check on Carbon Capture

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 18:56:26

Great Apes May Have the Foundations for Language

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 18:56:26

Scientific Breakthroughs From Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt

Jenny McGrath, BI It's been a year since

Published: 2024-11-27 18:56:26

Could Dark Matter Be the Same Thing as Dark Energy?

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 18:56:26

Transforming How the EPA Does Science

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 18:56:26

Are Saunas Good for You? Yes, But...

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 18:56:26

A Deathblow to an Alternative Theory of Gravity

Robert Lea, Advanced Science News Researchers have examined the

Published: 2024-11-27 18:56:26

Antimatter to Be Transported Outside a Lab for First Time

Elizabeth Gibney, Nature Two teams of CERN physicists are racing to perform an extraordinary feat: transporting

Published: 2024-11-27 18:56:26

What Killed the Universe's Massive Galaxies?

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 18:56:26

U.S. Military Testing 'Anti-Aging' Pill

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

Psilocybin Sparks Lasting Growth to Neural Connections

Tim McMillan, Debrief In a study just published in the journal

Published: 2021-07-19 13:08:52

Iceland Tried a 4-Day Work Week. It Was a Big Success

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

How Deep Brain Stimulation Boosts Confidence

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

Is Unprovable Physics Philosophy?

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

The Neuroscience of Nostalgia

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

Diamonds and the Origin of Life

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

Archaeological Find Supports King David

Nancy Szokan, WaPo The ancient kings David and

Published: 2014-12-24 12:33:36

It May Be Possible to Restore Lost Memories

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

Is String Theory About to Unravel?

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

Quantum Immortality

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

Active, Organic Chemistry on Mars a Sign of Life?

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

Did We Just Find Dark Matter?

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

Key Quantum Mechanics Problem Solved

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

Are Habitable Binary Planets Possible?

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

Jumping Genes Shaking the Tree of Life

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

Magnetic Tornado Stirring Up Haze at Jupiter's Poles

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 18:11:37

Neolithic Peoples May Have Been Baking Focaccia

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 18:28:48

Complex Structure Made by Neanderthals Unearthed

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 18:20:23

For Cooking, Air Fryers Produce the Least Indoor Air Pollution

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 17:28:38

Sunlight Could Allow Recycling of Black Plastics

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 18:11:36

Kazakhstan Aims to Grow 'Climate-Friendly' Beef

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 18:11:36

Inside Google's Quiet Quest for Nuclear Power

Ross Koningstein, IEEE Spectrum In 2014 I went to my managers with an audacious proposal: Let's create a

Published: 2024-11-27 18:20:23

Green Flight Paths Could Boost Sustainable Aviation Fuels

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 17:11:23

How Will the GOP Change the U.S. Energy Transition?

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

How a Smelly Seaweed Could Fuel Cars

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

There's Enough Land to Feed the World and Store Carbon

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

Can Desalination Quench Agriculture's Thirst?

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

China Building Ultra-High-Voltage Power Grid

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

Can Jamaica Go Nuclear?

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

Realism and Pragmatism at the Department of Energy

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

A New Method to Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Methane Fuel

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

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