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

Silicon Valley's False Religion

Àlex Gómez-Marín, iai The transhumanists of Silicon Valley aim to become more than human - to copy life, edit humanity, and delete death. But Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that transhumanism...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:11:30

Outer Space Needs a Recycling Bin

David Ziegler, RealClearScience Earth's orbit is getting crowded with junk. And that's becoming a major problem. Starting with Sputnik I in 1957, humanity has...

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

Living in Space Sucks

Levi Stallings, Salon Climate change, war and fascism got you down? Wish you could buy a ticket on the Europa Clipper spacecraft that's on its way to

Published: 2024-11-23 18:28:52

I Tried Lab-Grown Salmon. Here's What It Tasted Like.

Emma Camp, Reason I've been a committed vegan for more than three years, but this week, I ate meat. Why? The meat dishes I ate this Wednesday weren't ordinary salmon and chicken. They didn't...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:28:51

Acne and Diet: An Ambiguous Association

Jonathan Jarry, Office for Sci and Society You have probably heard that drinking milk and eating chocolate causes acne or, at the very least, that they make it worse. Diet is often blamed...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:11:34

How Europeans Changed at the Dawn of Agriculture

Evrim Yazgin, Cosmos Magazine DNA from samples spanning 8,500-1,300 years ago shows how ancient Europeans adapted to the development of early agriculture. Genes underwent significant...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:28:53

Inside Pentaquarks and Tetraquarks

Marek Karliner & Jonathan L Rosner, CERN Courier Breakthroughs are like London buses. You wait a long time, and three turn up at once. In 1963 and 1964, Murray Gell-Mann, André Peterman and...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:28:51

In the Quantum World, Points of View Are Uncertain

Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Imagine standing on a railway platform watching a trolley go past. A girl on the trolley drops a bright red ball. To her, the ball falls straight down. But from the...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:20:19

Fusion Energy Research and Bombs Inertwined

Arjun Makhijani, Bulletin of Atomic Sci The recent achievement of fusion ignition—meaning more energy came out of a self-sustaining fusion reaction than was put in—at Lawrence Livermore...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:28:52

Astronomers Discover a 'Newborn' World

Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian A recent discovery of a "newborn" exoplanet could help...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:28:53

Direct Evidence That Hot Water Once Flowed on Mars

Robert Lea, Space.com Scientists have found what seems to be the oldest direct evidence of hot water flowing on Mars during its ancient past. The discovery could further indicate that the...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:28:52

Maya May Have Engineered Landscapes to Trap Fish

Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what's now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:20:17

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

Millions of Americans Hurt by Others' Alcohol Use

EurekAlert! The risks of alcohol and other drug consumption to the user are well known, but many Americans--nearly 160 million--say they've been harmed by someone else's substance use,...

Published: 2024-11-23 16:20:39

Nearby Supernova Could End the Search for Dark Matter

Univ of California-Berkeley The search for the universe's dark matter could end tomorrow — given a nearby supernova and a little luck. The nature of dark matter has eluded...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:28:53

Unknown Mechanism Might Cause the Heart to Repair Itself

Karolinska Institutet After severe heart failure, the ability of the heart to heal by forming new cells is very low. However, after receiving treatment with a supportive heart pump, the...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:11:33

Chemists Create the World's Thinnest 'Spaghetti'

University College London The spaghetti is not intended to be a new food but was created because of the wide-ranging uses that extremely thin strands of material, called nanofibers, have in...

Published: 2024-11-23 18:11:34

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: 2024-11-23 18:20:19

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: 2024-11-23 18:11:36

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: 2024-11-23 17:11:30

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: 2024-11-23 18:28:53

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

A Roadmap to Eliminating Plastic Pollution by 2050

Sonia Fernandez, The Current UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a

Published: 2024-11-20 02:12:19

A Conservative Case for Nuclear Power

Ronald Beaty, RealClearScience In the tapestry of modern environmental policy, where the threads of urgency and skepticism weave a complex pattern, there...

Published: 2024-11-20 07:12:05

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