Новости за 03.05.2024

Adam Higginbotham, Washington Post

On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, killing all aboard. Among...

Emily Cooke, Live Sci

Optical illusions play on the brain's biases, tricking it into perceiving images differently than how they really are. And now, in mice, scientists have harnessed an...

Emma Waters, The New Atlantis

For the first time since the Bush-era stem cell debates, reproductive technology has taken center stage in American politics. An Alabama Supreme Court decision...

Veronique Greenwood, Quanta

Every organism visible to the naked eye is a mass of genetically identical cells. Each of these multicellular creatures started as a single cell that divided...

Will Sullivan, Smithsonian

Past scientific research has suggested that episodes of anger are linked to increased

Joe Schwarcz, OSS

The human body is the most complex machine on the face of the Earth. Like any machine, it requires an input of fuel to function along with a variety of chemicals for proper...

Ethan Siegel, BT

In our Universe, the laws of physics tell us all the possibilities for what's allowed to conceivably exist, but only by actually observing, measuring, and experimenting with...

Dan Gearino, Ars Technica

The need for long-duration energy storage, which helps to fill the longest gaps when wind and solar are not producing enough electricity to meet demand, is as clear...

Jordan & de Chalonge, Conv

There is still so much we don't understand about the origin of life on Earth.

Noa Leach, Science Focus

Despite being a fundamental part of human existence, we know very little about consciousness and how it happens. Now, scientists have just brought us one step closer...

Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience

At the end of the Cold War, many thinkers optimistically predicted that globalization would cause global societies' social

UC-Riverside

Recent reports of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finding signs of life on a distant planet understandably...

EurekAlert!

An unusual reduction in the strength of the Earth's magnetic field between 591 and 565 million years ago coincided with a significant increase in the oxygen levels in the...

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so far it has never been known that animals treat their wounds with healing plants....