Discovering fossilized insects is difficult, but a new find suggests a unique place to look.
Planets are either rocky, like Earth, or gas-rich, like Neptune, with no in-between. What are the different types of planets that exist in the Universe? If all you could see […]
Most schools use a semester system, but a new study suggests that they should switch to quarters.
Nearly 90% of the world’s blind live in low-income countries.
UAE is the world’s most expensive country to start a business, but it’s free in Rwanda.
A new study mapped areas of the U.S. that are most likely to suffer natural disasters.
All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]
Are you getting a full 8 hours?
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
The pilot project is in 10 stores and is 85% accurate.
A Nazi institute produced a Bible without the Old Testament that portrayed Jesus as an Aryan hero fighting Jewish people.
Antisense oligonucleotide therapy uses small molecules to alter RNA. Researchers have now used those molecules to alleviate a genetic form of blindness.
Evolutionary success is not about the number of one’s children, but one’s grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.
The skeleton of the world’s oldest known shark attack victim exhibits telltale wounds.
The wise, the old, and the experienced matter to a full and happy life.
Whether they’re gas giants or rocky planets makes all the difference for life. Over the past 30 years, we went from not knowing if there were planets like ours around other […]
Looking probably isn’t something you need to practice. People believe they can apprehend a painting at a glance. They read coworkers’ messages and assume they understand a situation. Or they […]
Reduction is an approach that has been successful in science but is not itself synonymous with “science.”
Our program lowers reincarceration rates by 44 percent.
Whether you write it 6/28 or 28/6, it’s perfection either way. Perfection might be a wonderful thing to strive for in life, but achieving it is very rare. In the realm […]
A new study proposes that Hawking radiation could be used to find dark matter in places like primordial black holes.
Can a war be won from the air? A group of renegade pilots in the 1930s thought so.
The first of many dodecahedrons was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don’t know what they were for.
Metal really does sometimes stick to some people’s skin. Here’s the science of why. Every once in a while, a claim comes along that wildly challenges the mainstream scientific narrative. These […]
The evidence for a link between time spent using technology and mental health is fatally flawed.
In 1933, the skull of a 50-year-old male of the Homo longi species was found in China, puzzling researchers.
A team of biohackers is on a David-versus-Goliath mission to make insulin affordable to an increasing number of diabetics.
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis argues that a comet strike caused major changes to climate and human cultures on Earth about 13,000 years ago.
Apart from divine authority, is there an ethical basis for right and wrong?