Science
Poland Confirms Iran Has Detained Its Scientist For ‘Espionage’
On Thursday, Poland confirmed that one of its scientists is detained in Iran, while Austria and the United Kingdom both rejected reports that any of their diplomats were being held...
Consciousness: How The Brain Chemical ‘Dopamine’ Plays a Key Role – New Research
Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would after all be no science. But while we all know what it is like to be...
Our Brains Perceive Our Environment Differently When We’re Lying Down
You’re agitated by the sound of a mosquito buzzing around your head. The buzzing stops. You feel the tiny pinprick and locate the target. Whack! It’s over. It’s a simple...
Earth’s Inner Core is Growing More on One Side than the Other – Here’s Why the Planet Isn’t Tipping
More than 5,000 kilometres beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936. Almost a century later, we’re still struggling to answer basic questions about when and how it...
Potentially Habitable Exoplanets Get Front-Row Seats to See Earth
More than two thousand nearby star systems could pinpoint our planet Earth by watching it cross our sun, according to scientists at Cornell and the American Museum of Natural History....
Yikes: Meet the New Australian Dinosaur That Is Longer Than 2 Buses
Today, a new Aussie dinosaur is being welcomed into the fold. Our study published in the journal PeerJ documents Australotitan cooperensis – Australia’s largest dinosaur species ever discovered, and the largest land-dwelling species to...
Geometrically Baffling ‘Quasicrystals’ Found in The Debris of The First-Ever Nuclear Blast
Nuclear detonations unleash an astonishing amount of destructive force. But the extreme pressure and temperature that they generate also makes nuclear blasts a cauldron of chemical creation, capable of delivering new and surprising scientific...
How Did Humans Evolve, and Will We Evolve More?
How did humans evolve, and will they evolve more? – Anya T., 13, Brookline, Massachusetts Everything that is alive today has evolved, including human beings. Our ancestors evolved many traits that...
New Warp Drive Research Dashes Faster than Light Travel Dreams
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Faster-than-light travel remains a distant dream. But warp technology would be revolutionary in its own right. In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would...
How Horses Can Recognize Their Reflections
If you ask people to list the most intelligent animals, they’ll name a few usual suspects. Chimpanzees, dolphins and elephants are often mentioned, as are crows, dogs and occasionally pigs....
Male and Female Brains May Be More Similar Than We Realize
Along with just about every other aspect of real or imagined differences between the sexes, the idea that your biological sex will determine the sex of your brain – and...
How to Prevent Earth’s Microbes from Contaminating other Planets
There are two planned Mars landings in 2021. First, Nasa’s Perseverance rover is due to land on the planet later this month. Then China’s Tianwen rover will follow in May....