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Covering psychology the past several years, I've grown used to reading about how classic, viral experiments in the field are failing in... Read More
Even when you close your eyes at night, 100 billion neutrinos produced in the sun will pass through them – travelling close to the... Read More
If you want to send a message through a wormhole, you better make it brief. Under certain circumstances, a message could be passed... Read More
Around the world, humans communicate with each other using nearly 7,000 distinct languages. But despite how different languages like English... Read More
The street performer was only 10 years old. He put knives through his arms and walked on hot embers. By 14 he was dead. Someone dared him to... Read More
On September 12, 1895, a Nebraskan named Jessie Allan died of tuberculosis. Such deaths were a common occurrence at the turn of the 20th... Read More
Archaeologists have spotted an 8,000-year-old wooden platform in the waters off southern Great Britain.The mostly intact find sat in a larger... Read More
Candace Croney joined the faculty at Purdue University in 2011, thinking her job would focus on the welfare of livestock and poultry in... Read More
I will not explain here what a black hole is or how we that know black holes exist, for this you can watch my earlier video. Let me instead... Read More
Mars is a very different world from ours. While evidence continues to mount that early Mars had lots of water, and possibly even oceans on... Read More
Researchers have uncovered the first direct evidence of resident microbes in Kidd Creek Mine, a 3-kilometer-deep copper and zinc mine in... Read More
A mother panther walks into frame and pauses. She looks around, ears alert. One of her cubs appears and looks healthy and strong. Then her... Read More
A single enzyme found in early single-cell life forms could explain why oxygen levels in the atmosphere remained low for two billion years... Read More
Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their... Read More
When it comes to climate change, moving people and development away from at-risk areas can be viewed, not as a defeat, but as a smart... Read More
For hundreds of thousands of years, monkeys and apes have been plagued by simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which still devastates primate... Read More
Breathe it in – the air around you is roughly 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% argon. During your lifetime, you'll inhale and exhale... Read More
Researchers have shown that electrical stimulation to the skull can starve brain cancers of vital nutrient-rich blood, opening the door to... Read More
Today [August 13] the US National Academy of Sciences is hosting the first meeting of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of... Read More
This week I came across a brain stimulation device called Humm that promises to improve your cognitive function and memory if you stick it to... Read More
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Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the Universe: the only locations where there's so much energy in a tiny volume of space that an event horizon gets created. When they form, atoms, nuclei, and even fundamental particles themselves are crushed down to an arbitrarily small volume — to a singularity — in our three-dimensional space. Read More
Today [August 13] the US National Academy of Sciences is hosting the first meeting of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing in Washington, to discuss controversial applications of CRISPR to human eggs, sperm, or fertilized ova, in the wake of Chinese researcher He Jiankui announcing the birth of CRISPR twins after a similar meeting in 2017 (See Do China' Read More
