Microplastics Aren’t Just Found in Seafood Anymore. Here Are 9 Other Foods With More Microplastics Than You ThinkMicroplastics are in our water, air and seafood. It’s been recently discovered to be in chewing gum, too. Here’s what to know about microplastics in your foods.
The Search for One of North America’s Rarest BirdsScientists must journey to remote islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, braving uncertain conditions, to reach the breeding grounds of McKay’s Buntings.
This Is the Most Detailed Map of Antarctica Ever MadeScientists compiled decades of data to reveal the continent hiding beneath millions of miles of ice.
Happy Dogs Make Happy Humans, And 9 Other Reasons Science Says Dogs Need to ChewChewing enriches the physical, psychological and emotional health of dogs in many interconnected ways.
What’s the Best Time to Wake up? Here’s What Science SaysInsufficient sleep can lead to serious health risks like heart disease and diabetes. It is advised that consistently getting 7-8 hours of sleep daily is more crucial than the specific time one sleeps
Supersymmetry Was the Next Big Thing in Particle Physics. What Happened?Supersymmetry, a theory that posits every known elementary particle has a heavier “superpartner” particle, has been the superstar of theoretical physics for the past half century.
Laurie Santos’s Pursuit of HappinessLaurie Santos, a cognitive scientist at Yale, teaches the most popular course in the university’s three-hundred-year history, Psychology and the Good Life. One of her central messages—in the class, and on the podcast it inspired—is that, when it comes to happiness, we have some agency.
SpaceX Starship Breaks Apart After Launch in Second Failure in a RowSpaceX made multiple changes in the wake of a January Starship failure, only to suffer a second straight vehicle breakup Thursday.
Melbourne startup launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cellsOn a warm Melbourne day late last year, hundreds of thousands of live human brain cells sat inside a box on a table in Brunswick.
The good news about anxietyThe first time my improv teacher called me up to act out a scene, my throat clenched and my vision briefly went dim. The thought of performing in front of other people, especially in a way that was meant to be silly, sent my anxiety into the stratosphere.
AlphaFold is running out of data — so drug firms are building their own versionYou have full access to this article via your institution. AlphaFold, the revolutionary, Nobel prize-winning tool for predicting protein structures, has a problem: it’s running low on data.
We may finally understand how metformin lowers blood sugar, animal study findsSince the 1990s, doctors have prescribed the drug metformin to treat type 2 diabetes, but scientists didn't fully understand how it worked.
NASA Is Watching a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic FieldNASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.
Why I Chose Obsidian to Keep My Journal (And All My Writing)Summary Obsidian is a free, intuitive markdown editor for journaling and writing with seamless device syncing. Instead of having to pay for a cloud syncing subscription, Obsidian offers a local file storage option (which can then be synced with iCloud or Google Drive).
Microsoft quantum computing claim still lacks evidence: physicists are dubiousAnaheim, CaliforniaA Microsoft researcher today presented results behind the company’s controversial claim last month to have created the first ‘topological’ qubits — a long-sought goal of quantum computing.