The quest began with a simple enough question: “Where is the skull of Andreas Vesalius?”
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How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
An interview with Lisa Kaltenegger, the founding director of the Carl Sagan Institute, about the modern quest to answer an age-old question: “Are we alone in the cosmos?”
There’s a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.
There were at least eight other human species, some of whom existed for far longer than we have. Who were they?
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
Plato and Carl Sagan were wrong about the human brain, says a top neuroscientist.
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Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
You can buy over 400,000 products tagged “witch” on Etsy, from candles to spell bottles to pentagram necklaces.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
Many key inventions were unique: one-offs.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.
The opening of jars, while impressive and often used to illustrate octopus intelligence, is not their most remarkable ability.
Edinburgh University project geo-locates victims of Scottish ‘witch-prickers’ in the 16th and 17th century.
Until about a decade ago, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars.
What if patience, and maybe other personality features too, are more a product of where we are than who we are?
Even before MMA was a combat sport, it was a unique type of astronomy. Today, it’s opening up the Universe as never before. On February 24, 1987, a spectacular signal was […]
It’s strange to think that something that died 76m years ago plays a role in modern ecosystems, but life is opportunistic.
New research suggests that a healthy supply of locally-sourced beer helped maintain the unity of the widespread Wari civilization for about 500 years.
Have sexual interludes obscured the path to love?
African Americans have always been innovators, despite a long-discriminatory patent system.
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Meet LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Yes, it’s giant LIGO, in space, and it’s happening! “Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical […]
A live-blog event happened a week ago, but you can catch the entire thing anew here, right now! “We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in […]
Astrophysicists have been looking for worlds like Proxima b since the 19th century. At last, they’re found! This article is contributed by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized in […]
Which came first, monogamy or the social contract? Evolutionary psychologists and biologists think the latter.
I scored an exclusive interview with Dave Reitze, the executive director of LIGO. Take a trip inside his Universe. “When I was in high school, I was certain that being […]
VR is Poised to Change Many Facets of Healthcare. Find out How.
It happened 500 years ago — and again in the 19th century.