Tag: science

Carving an artificial harbor out of Alaska’s remote northwest coast would take just an instant, claimed the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1958.  They’d just bury six atomic bombs under ...

A new study could offer some hope for reinstating and rejuvenating old memories. The idea builds off a theory based around "mental time travel," which suggests mentally traveling back to ...

While many science books would have you believe the Earth’s lower mantle—the layer deep below the crust—is smooth, it’s actually made up of a mountainous-like topography that moves and changes ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are master migrators. Some populations of this  baleen whale species travel upwards of 5,000 miles per year from ...

As the saying goes, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but (discounting that vinegar is actually a great way to trap fruit flies), there’s an even better method: ...

In 2020, scientists claimed to have found a sign of life on Venus: hints of a stinky gas called phosphine that’s made by microbes on Earth. The claim was swiftly ...

AI-generated “deepfake” materials are flooding the internet, sometimes with dangerous results. In just the last year, AI has been used to make deceiving voice clones of a former US president ...

The Vikram lander on the lunar surface with the ChaSTE probe deployed. ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) We tend to think of the moon as a cold, dusty rock, but ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways to die: falling debris, collapsing buildings, asphyxiation from superheated dust ...

The brain's characteristic folds appear to differ subtly in those with schizophrenia compared to those without the condition. Image: OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images Schizophrenia might be among the most intensely studied ...