Research, Space & Discovery
In “Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes From Scientists’ Adventures Into the Unknown,” Roberta Kwok sets out to smash the stereotype of eureka moments as the main drivers of scientific knowledge, largely b...
The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary background noise and appeared where dark matter might be expected. Scientists a...
Kaarina Korhonen, U HelsinkiA study conducted at the University of Helsinki indicates that the total number of people with dementia will grow significantly in the coming years, and the...
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Optical structures based on the Smith hat produced unusual light patterns that reflected their lack of mirror symmetry and changed with light direction and polarization. The Smith hat first drew globa...
UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, stem cells responsible for producing much of the cerebral cortex, change t...
Gretchen Reynolds, Washington Post
The Pacific was buzzing with storms while the Atlantic was notably quiet.
Duke researchers developed an injectable scaffold that helped stroke-damaged brains grow new blood vessels, support nerve regrowth, and recover movement in mice. The treatment appears to work partly b...
Starre Vartan, Science AlertAging is inevitable, but it's certainly not consistent.We might think aging proceeds in a steady, linear fashion, with each day, week, and month marching...
Scientists have discovered a strange black “devil flower” in Thailand that lives mostly underground, steals nutrients from fungi, and looks strikingly unlike a typical plant. The newly named Thismia d...
Morning glories may be getting caught in an evolutionary tug-of-war between surviving climate change and attracting increasingly scarce pollinators. Over just nine years, researchers found that the pl...
Jillian Pretzel, The GuardianLast week, my mom complained that she's starting to smell "like an old person".She had grabbed her favorite sweater and draped it over herself at the...
Alex Chalmers & Rob Wiblin, Works in ProgressEvery child is taught that landfill is the worst place our trash can end up. It is the sad consequence of a failure to recycle: a mountain of...
Joe Schwarcz, McGill OSS"Why Are Young People Getting Colon Cancer? Weed Killer May Be Linked" was the social media headline that understandably caused quite a stir given that...
Luke Conway, Unsafe ScienceLucian (Luke) Gideon Conway, III is Professor of Psychology at Grove City College. Luke was one of the first academics to break through social psychology's denial...
Gronlund & Wright, Bulletin of Atomic SciIn January 2025, President Donald Trump signed an
Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post
Erik Hoel, iaiAfter a Nature paper provided possible indications of past life on Mars, neuroscientist and philosopher Erik Hoel makes the case that Mars could act as a planetary museum for...
Ian Sample, The GuardianIt's that time of year again: a select group of scientists have been summoned to a ceremony to receive coveted prizes, be showered in paper planes, and leave with a...