It May Be Possible to Restore Lost Memories

Under Arctic Ice, Secret Military Base Emerges in Images

Micah Hanks, The Debrief When it first appeared in their radar images, NASA scientist Chad Greene and his team of engineers weren't sure what they were seeing. Flying above northern...

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

Russian Ship Docks to Space Station, Emits Foul Smell

Eric Berger, Ars Technica It should have been a routine mission to ferry about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the International Space Station, but when Russian cosmonauts opened...

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

What RFK, Jr. Gets Right

Martin Kulldorff, The Federalist Some in the scientific community are shocked and dismayed. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health...

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

Were Neanderthals Collecting Dino-Era Fossils for Fun?

Evrim Yazgin, Cosmos Fossils found in a cave in northern Spain might be an example of humans - in this case

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

The Strange Truth About Where Mass Comes From

Don Lincoln, Big Think If I asked you where your mass comes from, your answer might involve an extra muffin or two. However, if I ask a science enthusiast the same question, I would expect...

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

Yes, It's Possible to Be Scientific and American

Avi Loeb, Medium Ten days ago, Laura Helmuth

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

Is COP29's Climate Deal Historic or a Let-Down?

Ehsan Masood, Nature A last-minute deal that rescued the COP29 climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, is a "fragile consensus", researchers who study climate finance have told...

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

Microbes a Rising Danger in the Arctic

Valerie Brown, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists The popular image of the Arctic is as a "frozen North," which it was for all of human history until a couple of centuries ago. In that view,...

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

Mysterious Ocean Noise Sounds Like Leviathans Talking

Michelle Starr, Sci Alert In the waters around Antarctica, decades ago, humans heard a strange sound: a repeating noise that sounded like the quacking of a duck, if the duck was a giant

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

Turkeys Are Increasingly Living in Cities

Anne Readel, Smithsonian Wild turkeys are causing a stir in cities across the United States. Whether strutting down sidewalks, stopping traffic or foraging in yards, these once-elusive birds...

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

Seeing Galileo's Original Experiments Left Me Speechless

Adam Frank, Big Think It's impossible to know our place in history. Trapped in the furious back and forth of current events, from elections to dangerous conflicts, we can lose sight of how...

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

The Hunter-Gatherer Guide to Keeping Society Equal

Brenna Hassett, Human Bridges There is a great deal of attention in modern societies to inequality and the social problems it causes. Often inequality is considered to be the

Published: 2024-11-26 13:41:41

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

How Dopamine and Serotonin Shape Learning

EurekAlert! If you've heard of two of the brain's chemical neurotransmitters, it's probably dopamine and serotonin. Never mind that glutamate and GABA do most of the work — it's the thrill...

Published: 2024-11-26 11:11:11

The Most Energetic Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons Ever Observed

CNRS Scientists from the CNRS, a consortium of German universities, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik working at the H.E.S.S. observatory have recently identified electrons and...

Published: 2024-11-26 13:12:20

Ethiopian Wolves Drink Nectar From Flowers

University of Oxford New findings, published in the journal...

Published: 2024-11-26 12:20:18

What Did the Dinosaur Parasaurolophus Sound Like?

Acoustical Society of America Fossils might give a good image of what dinosaurs looked like, but they can also teach scientists what they sounded like. The Parasaurolophus is a...

Published: 2024-11-26 12:20:17

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: 2024-11-26 13:12:24

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: 2024-11-26 13:12:22

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: 2024-11-26 13:32:11

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: 2024-11-26 12:11:17

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

Everyone Needs to Chill Out on AI Energy Demand

Hannah Ritchie, Substack Artificial intelligence (AI) has been, by far, the most-requested topic over the last year. I've avoided writing about it, because good data on its energy...

Published: 2024-11-22 04:12:27

Relying on Oceans and Forests Will Not Stop Global Warming

University of Reading Relying on 'natural carbon sinks' like forests and oceans to offset ongoing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use will not actually stop global warming, say an...

Published: 2024-11-22 08:20:03

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