100,000 Video Game Players Helped Scientists Prove Einstein Wrong
Sorry, Albert—turns out that quantum mechanics really is as spooky as you thought it was.
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Sorry, Albert—turns out that quantum mechanics really is as spooky as you thought it was.
The struggle to establish nonhuman animal personhood is far from over.
Why haven’t we found a surefire way to cure or prevent the deadly disease yet?
New research has uncovered the biological factors involved in keeping squirrels' cellular structures intact during hibernation—a finding that could eventually be used to preserve human organs prior to transplantation.
It’s been more than six months since the Cassini probe plummeted to its demise, but scientists are still releasing incredible images from two-decade mission to Saturn.
The wave was recorded on the night of 9 May by a buoy currently floating in the Southern Ocean near Campbell Island about 430 miles south of New Zealand.
The company voted most likely to spawn the Robopocalypse has released a pair of new videos showcasing the latest abilities of its synthetic creations.
The cloaking devices on Star Trek bend light to render an object invisible, and the new device merely deflects sound.
As curious humans, scientists won’t be satisfied until they’ve nailed it.
Leprosy is one of the oldest known diseases to afflict humans, yet its origin is mired in controversy.
“I’m going to ask you to put your seatbelts on for this one, because the things I’m about to say are pretty outlandish to say the least.”
An analysis of a 34-million-year-old whale skull uncovered on Seymour Island in Antarctica is now providing some important new clues about cetacean evolution.
Studies have consistently shown that doctors die from suicide at a higher rate annually than people in any other profession.
This might be a dream of yours, until you actually see the caked sludge littering the highway.
Given the broader implications, the researchers hope their study can serve as a wake-up call for other researchers to begin looking closer at third-hand smoke.
A rock that formed in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter seems to have somehow travelled to the orbit of Neptune, according to a new observation.
