Toxic Dust on Mars Could Make Astronauts SickParticles on the Red Planet can be as coarse as asbestos.
A New Proof Smooths Out the Math of MeltingA powerful mathematical technique is used to model melting ice and other phenomena. But it has long been imperiled by certain “nightmare scenarios.” A new proof has removed that obstacle.
Dormant Algae Revived After 7,000 Years Beneath the Baltic Sea, Researchers SayResearchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant underneath sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for more than 7,000 years.
Cigarettes Caused South Carolina’s Table Rock Fire, Forestry Commission SaysTwo 18-year-olds, a 19-year-old and a juvenile were charged with a misdemeanor count Tuesday in connection with the start of the fire, which has burned more than 13,000 acres.
Forecasters Warn of Deadly Floods and Strong Tornadoes in Parts of the Midwest and SouthAs severe thunderstorms threaten to hit parts of the Midwest and South, forecasters are warning of potentially deadly flash flooding, strong tornadoes and baseball-sized hail.
How to keep your memory sharp as you ageConsumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. With age, our brains change just as much as our bodies do — even if the shift isn’t always as noticeable. Brain volume decreases, for example, and neural connections may weaken.
Want to Build Your Business Faster? This Neuroscientist Has a Strategy : You Must "Learn in Public"The following excerpt is from Anne-Laure Le Cunff's new book Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World. When developing new ideas, most entrepreneurs work behind closed doors, revealing their products only when they're polished and perfected.
Unproven Einstein theory of 'gravitational memory' may be real after all, new study hintsA team of theoretical physicists has proposed a new way to test one of the most intriguing predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity: gravitational memory.
Mathematicians Find Proof to 122-Year-Old Triangle-to-Square PuzzleAbout a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a triangular tile cut into four pieces that were connected by tiny hinges.
The Bird-Flu Tipping PointIf and when it happens, we might not know until it’s too late. Top U.S. health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently mused about a novel way to contain bird flu, which is to let it “run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it.
Those with this little-known trait think more deeply and feel more empathy. But they also deal with significant challengesHow does it feel to be ‘highly sensitive’? If I’d heard the question without all I know now, I would have said I wouldn’t know because I wasn’t.
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.
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.
3 Skills To Generate $5,000+/Month In Passive Income In 2025Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers freelancing, AI, and remote work.
‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron ColliderScientists are refining plans to build the world’s biggest machine at a site beneath the Swiss-French border. More than $30bn (£23bn) would be spent drilling a 91km circular tunnel in which subatomic particles would be accelerated to near light speeds and smashed into each other.