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We Have a Surplus of Baby Boys
Jonathan Jarry, Office for Science and Society Be honest: have you ever made love to your partner in a specific position because you heard that it would result in a baby boy? There...
Published: 2024-10-05 11:27:31
Don't Take 'The Unraveling of Space-Time' Too Seriously
John Horgan, Cross-Check Decades ago, I coined the phrase ironic science to describe theories that shouldn't be taken too seriously, because they can't be tested as genuine science...
Published: 2024-10-05 11:27:31
Making Nuclear Space Propulsion a Reality
Dan Kotlyar, The Conversation NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade - but the
Published: 2024-10-05 11:19:11
An 18th-Century Naturalist's Sexual Adventures in Tahiti
Ross Pomeroy, RCScience English naturalist Joseph Banks was the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, the oldest continuously existing scientific academy in the world. But before...
Published: 2024-10-05 11:27:32
The Year No One Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Cherry Marsh, Chemistry World What would happen if the entire chemistry community was told their work was not good enough? Could the news demoralise chemists or inspire them to strive to...
Published: 2024-10-05 11:19:11
Computer Scientists Combine Two 'Beautiful' Proof Methods
Ben Brubaker, Quanta How do you prove something is true? For mathematicians, the answer is simple: Start with some basic assumptions and proceed, step by step, to the conclusion. QED, proof...
Published: 2024-10-05 11:19:09
Why Everyone Used to Think Venus Had Dinosaurs
Thomas Moynihan, Big Think For the 1939 New York World's Fair, a ride was advertised for the Amusement Zone whisking visitors on a "
Published: 2024-10-05 11:27:33
Who Was the Last Neanderthal?
Kristina Killgrove, Live Science Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the time Homo sapiens reached Europe. One big question has stumped archaeologists for...
Published: 2024-10-05 11:27:31
How a Scientific Fraud Decimated a Research Lab
Calli McMurray, The Transmitter Daniel Heinz clicked through each folder in the file drive, searching for the answers that had evaded him and his lab mates for years. Heinz, a...
Published: 2024-10-05 11:27:33
Nitrous, One of the Oldest Mind-Altering Drugs, Is Back
Oshan Jarow, Vox The sweet, odorless gas technically called nitrous oxide has many names: laughing gas, galaxy gas, hippy crack, whippets, even "
Published: 2024-10-05 11:27:32
Why Women Lose More Sleep Than Men
Dr Michelle Griffin, Science Focus Sleep: there's a fairly good chance you're not getting enough. Whether due to the likes of stress, caffeine or late-night doom-scrolling,
Published: 2024-10-05 11:27:32
Water Fluoridation Is Less Effective Now
Cochrane Library The team of researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Dundee and Aberdeen reviewed the evidence from 157 studies which compared...
Published: 2024-10-05 11:27:33
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
Ant Agriculture Began in the Aftermath of the Dino-Killing Asteroid
Smithsonian When humans began farming crops thousands of years ago, agriculture had already been around for millions of years. In fact, several animal lineages have been growing their own...
Published: 2024-10-05 08:10:54
Engineers Create a Tractor Beam to Capture and Manipulate Cells
MIT MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based "tractor beam," like the one that captures the Millennium Falcon in the film "Star Wars," that could someday help...
Published: 2024-10-05 03:10:54
A Promising 'First' in Alzheimer's Drug Development
Lancaster University An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University have made a promising breakthrough in the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer's Disease. For...
Published: 2024-10-05 11:19:11
What Happens in the Brain When a Person 'Hears Voices'?
EurekAlert! Auditory hallucinations are likely the result of abnormalities in two brain processes: a "broken" corollary discharge that fails to suppress self-generated sounds, and a "noisy"...
Published: 2024-10-05 10:27:14
Where Environmentalists Went Wrong
Yascha Mounk, Substack Paris barely gets more sunlight than famously gray London, and has winters whose harshness can surprise newcomers. But for much of the year, it manages to sustain a...
Published: 2024-10-05 11:10:53
Defending Capitalism for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
Patrick Brown, TBI Mainstream economic discussions, whether in the context of elections or central bank interest rates, take for granted that the underlying goal is to facilitate and...
Published: 2024-10-05 10:10:49
Green Subsidies May Have Hidden Costs
Christine Buckley, UConn Today Government subsidies for business practices and processes should be approached with caution, even when they seem to be environmentally friendly, writes a group...
Published: 2024-10-05 08:27:30
Charting the Evolution of Nuclear Energy
Cam Tierney & Eric Markowitz, FreeThink Nuclear power has a checkered history, producing abundant, reliable, clean energy for decades, but with several major high-profile accidents marring...
Published: 2024-10-05 05:27:25
Storing Solar Energy in Molecules and Converting It to Heat Energy
CNRS Photochromic molecules can store light energy, but could they also convert it into heat? That is the challenge recently met by scientists from the CNRS and ENS Paris-Saclay
Published: 2024-10-05 03:10:55
How to Restart a Nuclear Reactor
Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum Data centers' need for clean electricity is so ravenous that a shuttered nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island—the site of the worst nuclear disaster in U.S....
Published: 2024-10-05 07:10:43
Is Desalination Really 'Absurdly Cheap'?
Hannah Ritchie, Sustainability by Numbers Elon Musk has said several times recently that desalinisation is "absurdly cheap".
Published: 2024-10-04 07:11:05
Ecomodernism Is Needed Now More Than Ever
Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience The climate continues to change, driven now by human actions. As it does, the warnings grow more pressing, the heat waves more
Published: 2024-10-04 06:27:29
Cover Crops' Climate Hype
Dan Blaustein-Rejto, The Breakthrough Institute Cover cropping, the practice of planting secondary crops during the off-season to improve soil health, has roots stretching back to...
Published: 2024-10-04 06:27:29
We Already Solved Modern Traffic Problems
Taras Grescoe, Long Now Foundation In many of the largest cities around the world, transportation is a mess. The citizens of Lagos, Jakarta, Sao Paulo and Rome spend too many of their waking...
Published: 2024-10-03 03:11:03
The Mineral Rush: The Hidden Cost of the Energy Transition
CIRAD Solar panels, wind turbines, electric batteries, and more - efforts to transform the energy sector are multiplying across the globe. The transition from fossil fuels to renewable...
Published: 2024-10-02 08:10:52
We Don't Need Climatism. We Need Energy Humanism
Robert Bryce, Substack On Saturday, I gave a 10-minute TED-style talk on energy humanism to about 300 high school students. The talk was part of an all-day event at the John Cooper School in...
Published: 2024-10-02 08:10:52