For decades, cinemas have earned more from concessions than ticket sales. But can their current business model survive in the streaming age?
Maybe bring an umbrella just in case.
Running to catch the bus might help you live longer.
ChatGPT’s capabilities are astonishing.
Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it’s magical.
Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
Without a solid understanding of the factors that affect the transfer of learning, the gulf between training and job performance is difficult to bridge.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world’s children in one night.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.
“My dad asked me if I had been to tutoring and I lied… Then he showed me the tablet.”
A recent study reveals how nerve insulation becomes impaired in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
It’s not only the gravity from galaxies in a cluster that reveal dark matter, but the ejected, intracluster stars actually trace it out.
In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.
People naturally judge fact from fiction in offline social settings, so why is it so hard online?
Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.
This small phase 1 study suggests that CRISPR-engineered T cells are safe and potentially effective, but there is a long way to go.
Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
Climate activists’ brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.