Alberto Navarro, Sapiens David, an American cyborg, has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the past month. ...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:32:29
Stewart Brand, Long Now Foundation I have been thinking about what it will take to move from a global civilization to a planetary civilization — and why we need to. First, consider...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:32:29
Zeke Hausfather, The Climate Brink As I noted a few months back, despite the end of El Niño conditions in...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:32:29
Dylan Scott, Vox Measles, mumps, and polio are supposed to be diseases of the past. In the early to mid-20th century, scientists developed
Published: 2024-11-28 02:32:29
Jeffrey S. Flier, The Free Press The Secretary of Health and Human Services oversees an enormous federal agency in charge of Medicare, Medicaid, federally funded...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:32:29
Grace van Deelen, EOS Few Earth science concepts are as controversial and enticing as the
Published: 2024-11-28 02:32:29
Tibi Puiu, ZME Science Deep in the Myanmar Mogok region, a tiny reddish-orange crystal sat unnoticed. To the untrained eye, it seemed like many other stones—polished by...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:32:29
Helena Kudiabor, Nature Faeces and vomit fossils from
Published: 2024-11-28 02:32:29
Laura Baisas, Popular Science To keep warm during the most recent ice age,
Published: 2024-11-28 02:32:29
Linda Ongaro, Conversation It started with a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai mountains in Siberia in the late 2000s. Thanks...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:32:29
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: 2024-11-28 08:10:55
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: 2024-11-28 08:27:09
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
Stanford University Our bodies divest themselves of 60 billion cells every day through a natural process of cell culling and turnover called apoptosis. These cells — mainly blood...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:31:10
Durham University Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:31:10
EurekAlert! Researchers have quantified for the first time the global emissions of a sulfur gas produced by marine life, revealing it cools the climate more than previously thought,...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:31:10
Medical Xpress For oral medications that prevent new HIV infection to be effective, the patient must take certain actions, including attending doctor's visits every three months and—most...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:31:09
Saima May Sidik, Eos A climate adaptation strategy that's meant to lower city temperatures could have the opposite effect for people living just outside the zone in which it's used,...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:31:45
Nicola Jones, Nature Can the world finally agree on how to end plastic pollution? We should know by the end of the week. Negotiators from 175 countries are in Busan, South Korea, to...
Published: 2024-11-28 02:31:45
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: 2024-11-28 02:31:45
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: 2024-11-28 02:31:45
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: 2024-11-28 07:27:18
Ross Koningstein, IEEE Spectrum In 2014 I went to my managers with an audacious proposal: Let's create a
Published: 2024-11-28 07:10:58
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