Silicon transistors, which are used to amplify and switch signals, are a critical component in most electronic devices, from ...
Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ...
The unique properties of baseball’s famed “magic” mud have never been scientifically quantified — until now. In a new paper ...
Our collective perception of flame is clouded. When asked to picture a flame, most people probably envision an orange streak ...
The findings, the first to demonstrate that young children distinguish between improbable and impossible events, and learn significantly better after impossible occurrences, are published in ...
(via Veritasium) Being better at math can make you worse at math problems, and it’s completely rational.
In which I apologize that my videos sometimes lack nuance and explain why I think we are witnessing the failure of science.
The latest research fraud scandal concerns one Eliezer Masliah. He’s one of the world’s leading researchers into Alzheimer’s ...
Uncertainty about the election getting to you? Is anxiety the dominant feature of your emotional landscape, maybe with a ...
Scientific magazines and websites have been raising quite the hubbub about the Amplituhedron, a geometric structure that can ...
Do black holes destroy information? Physicists have been trying to answer that question for decades, because the idea that ...
Despite numerous conferences, treaties, and commitments, the vision of a green economy remains elusive. The United States ...