A new finding that unconsciously processed images are distributed to higher-order brain networks requires the revision of a popular theory of consciousness.
Aptera expects to begin delivering its solar-powered car later in 2022.
Long before tobacco arrived from the Americas, ancient civilizations in the Old World were getting high off hemp smoke and opium.
One might think that people who started poor and became rich might be more sensitive to the plights of the poor. Not so, suggests a new study.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
The good news is that it can be countered with acne medication.
Only 2% of Alzheimer’s is 100% genetic. The rest is up to your daily habits.
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New research finds that dinosaurs were already adapted to living in cold climates before the end-Triassic mass extinction. But how?
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
Science and the sacred both allow us to retain our sense of wonder, even as disaster seems to swirl around us.
Most American men who die by suicide do not have any known history of mental health problems. So, what is to blame?
Fossils of Australopithecus in a South African cave are one million years older than previously thought. This challenges the consensus that humans first evolved in East Africa.
Such massive, early supermassive black holes have puzzled astronomers for decades. At last, we’ve finally figured out how they form.
It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.
For the very first time, an AR contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. And it has about 30 times the pixel density of an iPhone.
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
Here’s why mega-eruptions like the ones that covered North America in ash are the least of your worries.
It’s the “intersection of burnout, imposter syndrome, and anxiety.”
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month.
A successful trial that tested a vaccine against bladder cancer in dogs could help develop a similar one for humans.
He’s studied apes for 50 years – here’s what most people get wrong.
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Looking up at the night sky gives us a glimpse of the Universe beyond our terrestrial concerns. Here’s what’s out there.
The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.
The architecture and infrastructure found may well have required the greatest amount of skilled labor of any construction from the same time period in the entire continent.
LIGO can detect the inspirals and mergers of the lowest-mass black holes, but not the biggest ones. Here’s how pulsars can help.
An out-of-this-world idea could help reduce some of the risk of solar geoengineering.
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
Seattle slowly raised its minimum wage to $15 per hour. The results provide fuel for both sides of the minimum wage debate.