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'Lentz Drive': a New Warp Drive Concept
Christopher Plain, The Debrief
Humans Are Generally Predictable Sheep
Steven Novella, Neurologica
Two Viking Burials, Separated by Ocean, Contain Close Kin
Kiona Smith, Ars
How Did Paleolithic Humans Light Their Caves?
Charles Q. Choi, Inside Science
A Modest Proposal: Let’s Change Earth’s Orbit
Maddie Bender, Scientific American
3D Printing Could End Transplant Waitlists if the FDA Lets It
Dan Troy, Stat
Implant Could Make Pharmaceuticals in the Body
Dieynaba Young, Smithsonian
Asteroid Mining: A Way to Get Very Rich?
Sabine Hossenfelder, Backreaction
There Will Never Be a True 'Theory of Everything'
Theodore Greenbaum, Medium
51% of Rivers Stop for at Least One Day Each Year
Carly Cassella, Science Alert
Are 'Forever' Chemicals in Cosmetics Dangerous?
Joe Schwarcz, McGill OSS
Why Does It Hurt So Much to Hit Your 'Funny Bone'?
Stacy Kish, Live Science
RCS Archives: Richard Feynman Was Not Politically Correct

The Latest Research

Some Black Death Victims Were Buried With Great Care
University of Cambridge
Earth Has a 27.5-Million-Year Cycle of Geological Activity
New York University
'Darwin's Nightmare' at Lake Victoria Coming to an End?
Université de Liège
Mathematician Finds Optimal Way to Pay Off Student Loans
Colorado-Boulder

Humans Of The Future

The Aging Process Is Ultimately Unstoppable
Amelia Hill, The Guardian
There's More to Height Than Just Our Genes
Eva Hamrud, Science Alert
Humans Might Be Making Genetic Evolution Obsolete
Cameron Duke, Live Sci
Telomere Length May Be Determined Early in Life
Columbia University

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'Lentz Drive': a New Warp Drive Concept

Christopher Plain, The Debrief

Ever since Captain James T. Kirk first ordered Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott to jump the Starship Enterprise to warp speed, real world... Read More

Humans Are Generally Predictable Sheep

Steven Novella, Neurologica

Magicians, marketers, and politicians all count, to some degree, on the belief that people (at least collectively) behave in fairly... Read More

Two Viking Burials, Separated by Ocean, Contain Close Kin

Kiona Smith, Ars

Roughly a thousand years ago, a young man in his early 20s met a violent end in England. Eight hundred kilometers (500 miles) away, in... Read More

How Did Paleolithic Humans Light Their Caves?

Charles Q. Choi, Inside Science

Prehistoric artists wandered deep into dark caves to adorn them with paintings, engravings and other art. Now archaeologists have re-created... Read More

A Modest Proposal: Let’s Change Earth’s Orbit

Maddie Bender, Scientific American

During a congressional hearing last week, Republican Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas asked a U.S. Forest Service official if her... Read More

3D Printing Could End Transplant Waitlists if the FDA Lets It

Dan Troy, Stat

Right now, more than 100,000 Americans are waiting for organ transplants. Due to a lack of available kidneys, livers, hearts, and lungs, at... Read More

Implant Could Make Pharmaceuticals in the Body

Dieynaba Young, Smithsonian

In 1926, Fritz Kahn completed Man as Industrial Palace, the preeminent lithograph in his five-volume publication The Life of Man. The... Read More

Asteroid Mining: A Way to Get Very Rich?

Sabine Hossenfelder, Backreaction

Asteroids are the new gold mines. Fly to an asteroid, dig up its minerals, become a billionaire. I used to think this is crazy and will never... Read More

There Will Never Be a True 'Theory of Everything'

Theodore Greenbaum, Medium

It’s generally assumed that physics provides us with objective truths about reality. The general consensus seems to be that we are... Read More

51% of Rivers Stop for at Least One Day Each Year

Carly Cassella, Science Alert

Our traditional idea of a river, an endlessly flowing stream of water, needs a rethink, scientists argue in a new study. Even when a river... Read More

Are 'Forever' Chemicals in Cosmetics Dangerous?

Joe Schwarcz, McGill OSS

Many cosmetics come with promises to make us look “forever young.” But there are some suggestions that many contain... Read More

Why Does It Hurt So Much to Hit Your 'Funny Bone'?

Stacy Kish, Live Science

Even the slightest bump of the funny bone can send pain rippling up and down the arm and a string of bawdy expletives rippling off the... Read More

The Latest Research

Some Black Death Victims Were Buried With Great Care

University of Cambridge

In the mid-14th century Europe was devastated by a major pandemic - the Black Death - which killed between 40 and 60 per cent of the... Read More

Earth Has a 27.5-Million-Year Cycle of Geological Activity

New York University

Geologic activity on Earth appears to follow a 27.5-million-year cycle, giving the planet a “pulse,” according to a new study... Read More

'Darwin's Nightmare' at Lake Victoria Coming to an End?

Université de Liège

Located in East Africa, just south of the Equator, Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile and is the largest tropical lake in the world.... Read More

Mathematician Finds Optimal Way to Pay Off Student Loans

Colorado-Boulder

After graduating or leaving college, many students face a difficult choice: Try to pay off their student loans as fast as possible to save on... Read More

Humans Of The Future

The Aging Process Is Ultimately Unstoppable

Amelia Hill, The Guardian

Immortality and everlasting youth are the stuff of myths, according to new research which may finally end the eternal debate about whether we... Read More

There's More to Height Than Just Our Genes

Eva Hamrud, Science Alert

Height varies dramatically between individuals. The tallest person ever measured was 2.72 meters (6.9 feet) tall, whilst the shortest person... Read More

Humans Might Be Making Genetic Evolution Obsolete

Cameron Duke, Live Sci

At the mercy of natural selection since the dawn of life, our ancestors adapted, mated and died, passing on tiny genetic mutations that... Read More

Telomere Length May Be Determined Early in Life

Columbia University

Telomeres are protective caps on DNA that shorten as we grow older. Now, one of the first studies to examine telomere length (TL) in... Read More

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Shining Light on Dark Matter

Study Suggests How Supermassive Black Holes Originate

Press release, University of California-Riverside

Supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, are black holes with masses that are several million to billion times the mass of our sun. The Milky Way hosts an SMBH with mass a few million times the solar mass. Surprisingly, astrophysical observations show that SMBHs already existed when the universe was very young.... Read More

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The CRISPR Frontier

The Anti-GMO Movement's Growing Irrelevance

Cameron English, ACSH

Introduced in the 1990s, crops genetically engineered (GE) to withstand exposure to the weed killer glyphosate (Roundup) were a game-changer for agriculture. They saved many farmers money on weed control, slashed greenhouse gas emissions caused by tilling and fossil fuel use, and indirectly boosted crop yields, all of which translated into lower food prices for consumers.... Read More

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