David Farrier, Aeon

At the end of August 1939, the German archaeologist Otto Völzing discovered around 200 fragments of carved mammoth ivory at the back of a cave in southern Germany. With...

Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum

There's no such thing as a complete vacuum. Even in the cosmic void between galaxies, there's an

University of Florida

Your chronological age may say 65, but your brain could be acting a decade younger — or older — depending on your life experiences.

That's the message from...

Ethan Siegel, Big Think

One of the most difficult concepts for anyone — even a professional astrophysicist — to wrap their minds around is the idea of the Big Bang and the expanding...

Tommaso Dorigo, Science 2.0

Subnuclear physics obeys the laws of quantum mechanics, which are quite a far cry from those of classical mechanics we are accustomed to. For that reason, one...

David Nield, Sci Alert

Traditionally, most heart attacks have been blamed on clogged...

Eric Berger, Ars Technica

There are plenty of rivalries in the US launch industry. People who build big and brawny machines tend to have egos to match. And if you chat up the senior...

Stephanie Pappas, Live Sci

A pair of

Hatty Willmoth, Science Focus

Growing your own fruit and veg is nothing new. But what if you could grow your own meat from the comfort of your own home? That's what a company in Japan wants...

John Horgan, Cross-Check

In early August I get an email from Jessica, who works for a public-relations firm. She invites me to "an intimate lunch at Le Pavillon—Chef Daniel Boulud's...

Eric Dolan, PsyPost

A new study published in the International Journal of Impotence Research ...

Phys.org

Average tree size across the Amazon has increased by 3.2% every decade, consistent with a response to rising carbon dioxide levels, a new study suggests.

The research...

Monash University

In a major advance for infectious disease treatment, researchers from Monash University and The Alfred have developed a bespoke phage therapy product that uses bacterial...

Mark Golden, Stanford

A 2022 California law mandates net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 and negative emissions every year thereafter. The state can achieve this but will have to act...

University of California-Riverside

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its carbon. As a result, they believe...

Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would...

Yabei Zhang, World Bank Blogs

Picture this: a traditional Rwandan kitchen where smoke is so thick you can barely see across the room. A woman, maybe in her twenties, is cooking while her...

Mugo & Elmorsy, The Conversation

Farmers are under pressure. Fertilizer costs have soared in recent years . Tariffs are

Maria Gallucci, Canary



Glassmaking has dramatically evolved in the thousands of years since ancient artisans crafted their first decorative beads and perfume bottles. But the...

Dave Levitan, Gravity Gone

The Italian oil and gas giant Eni

RMIT University

Engineers in Australia have developed a new building material with about one quarter of concrete's carbon footprint, while reducing waste going to landfill. This innovative...

Hannah Ritchie, Sust by Numbers

It's not uncommon for people to tell me that global food production is already collapsing due to climate change. They are then surprised to hear that we...

Alex Trembath, The Ecomodernist

"The technofix is in," wrote the environmental ethicist Clive...

Sarah DeWeerdt, Anthropocene

Getting more electric cars on the road will result in a greener electric grid because increased electricity demand for vehicle charging spurs investments in...

David Galland, Ration Optimist

A time traveler from the past would certainly agree that much we take for granted today qualifies as magic.

Increasingly, the genies in the machines are...

Daniele Visioni & Dakota Gruener, Works in Progress

The past ten years have been the warmest on record, with 15 countries setting national temperature records in 2024 alone. Although

Hausfather & Keith, New York Times

Since the Industrial Revolution, burning coal and oil has filled the air with sulfur, shortening the lives of billions of people. In response, countries...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Tim McMillan, Debrief

In a study just published in the journal

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...

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,...

Nancy Szokan, WaPo

The ancient kings  David  and

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.

Brian Greene, Smithsonian

On October 1984 I arrived  at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes...

Ethan Siegel, Starts with a Bang!

Observers are the necessary, but unliked, bouncers in the elegant nightclub of ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...