AI's Scientific Path to Trust

When It Comes to Life Expectancy, There Are Ten Americas

Chuck Dinerstein, ACSH America isn't one unified whole but rather a mosaic of lived experiences. Researchers identify Ten Americas, each defined by a complex web of race, geography, and...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

Chinese Scientists Claim They've Built a Beam Weapon

Peter Ray Allison, Live Sci Do you remember the moment in "Star Wars" when the Death Star destroys Alderaan? Eight laser beams converge at a single point to form a super-powered laser that...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

What Happens When You Donate Your Body to Science?

RJ Mackenzie, Pop Sci Death is inevitable and often unpredictable. But you still have control about what happens to your body after dying. That's if you proactively chose-before being...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

Color Explosion in Animals Has Lasted 100 Million Years

Russell McLendon, SciAlert Nature comes in a variety of striking colors, but all that beauty didn't evolve for our enjoyment.

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

Silicon Valley's AI Obsession Looks a Lot Like Religion

Greg Epstein, MIT Reader

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

The Long, Dark History of Wolfsbane

Joe Schwarcz, Montreal Gazette "When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

AI's Scientific Path to Trust

Alison Snyder, Axios Top researchers this week said scientific discoveries using

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

Does the Microwave Background Really Prove the Big Bang?

Ethan Siegel, Big Think No matter how strong the evidence is in favor of a scientific theory, there will always be contrarians who come along and encourage the exploration of alternatives....

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

The Ten Weirdest Nature Pictures of 2024

James Cutmore, Science Focus The shortlist for the Close-up Photographer of the Year has been announced, and some downright stunning, weird and very very zoomed-in images are in the frame...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

Learning the Language of Life With A.I.

Eric Topol, Ground Truths Antedating the world's notice of large language models (aka generative A.I.) with ChatGPT in November 2022 was

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

Silicon Valley's Elite Want Superbabies

Brown & Martschenko, San Francisco Standard "Pronatalist" parents like Simone and Malcolm Collins want it all: optimized babies - lots of them. To achieve this goal, the...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

Early Universe May Have Had Giant Batteries of Dust

Paul M. Sutter, Universe Today The largest magnetic fields in the universe may have found themselves charged up when the first stars began to shine, according to new...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:29:35

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

High-Speed Galaxy Collision Seen in Unprecedented Detail

Royal Astro Society A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one travelling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been seen in unprecedented detail by one of...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:22:32

Groundbreaking Approach to Treating Chronic Abdominal Pain

Universitat Wien A research team at the University of Vienna, led by medicinal chemist Markus Muttenthaler, has developed a new class of oral peptide therapeutic leads for treating chronic...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:22:31

In-Ear Microphones Could Hear Early Signs of Alzheimer's

Acoustical Society Alzheimer's disease affects more than 50 million people worldwide, often devastating both the individuals who have it and their families and loved ones. It has no known...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:22:31

Athletes Have Much Better Working Memory

University of Jyvaskyla A recently published meta-analysis by researchers at the University of Jyväskylä reveals an advantage in sports-related information processing compared to...

Published: 2024-11-25 02:22:30

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: 2024-11-25 02:26:41

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: 2024-11-25 02:26:41

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: 2024-11-25 08:27:47

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: 2024-11-25 07:11:00

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

Swap Some Cows for Forests in Rich Countries

Emma Bryce, Anthropocene Curbing how much

Published: 2024-11-21 08:11:40

Company Wants to Cool the Planet One Balloon at a Time

Philip Drost, CBC Luke Iseman has a plan to cool the planet, inspired by a science fiction novel, using balloons full of heat-reflecting sulfur dioxide launched into the Earth's...

Published: 2024-11-21 05:11:35

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