The Houdini of the Himalayas: Meet the Indian Scientist Who Fooled the World for 30 YearsIn the 1970s and 80s, Vishwajit Gupta — a professor at the Panjab University in Chandigarh — made a name for himself as an expert in the geological formations and fossil records of the Himalayas.
Wildfires in the Carolinas Prompt Evacuations, Emergency Declarations It is the second time in less than a month that residents in one North Carolina county have faced evacuations due to wildfires.
Archaeologists Found a Lost Roman City That Was Erased for 1,600 YearsWe’re lucky it hadn’t been burnt to ash.
How Does Music Impact Your Brain and Workflow?Learn how researchers played different types of music and tracked how well participants completed tasks.
Fiber Optic Network Spots Spacecraft’s Return to EarthDistributed acoustic sensing could allow telecom networks to study meteors
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.
A 'Third State' Exists Between Life and Death—And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists SayThe biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: we’re born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.
The ‘quantum’ principle that says why atoms are as they areWhat makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary in their properties, such as electrical conductivity, density, melting temperature or light-absorption spectra?
Here Are All the New Features in iOS 18.4The new iOS 18.4 beta is still missing an AI-overhauled Siri, on-screen awareness, and the app integrations feature we were promised all the way back in June at WWDC. If you're waiting for those features, try your luck with iOS 18.5. However, 18.4 isn't an empty update.
'The universe has thrown us a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might have gotten dark energy totally wrongAstronomers studying the largest-ever map of the cosmos have found hints that our best understanding of the universe is due a major rewrite.
Dark Matter Might Lurk in Its Own Shadow WorldHave you ever stood by the sea and been overwhelmed by its vastness, by how quickly it could roll in and swallow you? Evidence suggests that we are suspended in a cosmic sea of dark matter, a mysterious substance that shapes galaxies and large structures in the universe but is transparent to photons
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.
Tinnitus Seems to Be Somehow Connected to a Crucial Bodily FunctionAround 15 percent of the world's population suffers from tinnitus, a condition which causes someone to hear a sound (such as ringing or buzzing) without any external source. It's often associated with hearing loss.
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.
The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s LawThat connection emerged several years ago in a series of conversations between myself, Jayson Stewart, and my grandfather Rudolf Schultz. My grandfather was an avid amateur sky gazer who kept a large reflector telescope in the foyer of his home, right by the entrance, ready for rapid deployment.