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Poll shows that quantum physicists agree to disagree about the nature of reality
Quantum mechanics is real. It's spooky as hell, but it's real. Without its microscopically small probabilistic effects, we wouldn't have superconductors, lasers, and many forms of computing and...
View ArticleWatch this new animation of the Huygens probe as it lands on Titan
It's been eight years since the European Space Agency's Huygens probe landed on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Now, to celebrate this anniversary, and to make sense of the data sent back to Earth, a...
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This is what it would really look like to travel at near-lightspeed
It's one of the most iconic images in all of science fiction: the stretching of stars as a ship makes the jump to lightspeed. But as a group of physics students at the University of Leicester has...
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How 19-year-old activist Zack Kopplin is making life hell for Louisiana's...
For Zack Kopplin, it all started back in 2008 with the passing of the Louisiana Science Education Act. The bill made it considerably easier for teachers to introduce creationist textbooks into the...
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A chip that turns your body into a battery
In what sounds uncomfortably like a scenario from The Matrix, a startup in Corvallis, Oregon, has developed a small chip that can turn body heat into electric energy. The chip, which absorbs heat...
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Breakthrough technique for cutting and pasting genes into DNA works with...
Last year, geneticists developed a new techniquethat allows them directly insert genes into bacterial DNA — or remove them. It was a powerful discovery, one that finally offered researchers a cheap...
View ArticleWatch this stunning lunar flyby taken shortly before GRAIL's planned impact
On December 17 of last year, the NASA GRAIL mission came to a close when the Ebb spacecraft that had been orbiting the moon crashed into a mountain near its north pole. Three days prior to this...
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This is what China's record-level air pollution looks like from space
A number of Chinese cities, including Beijing, are currently experiencing the worst episode of air quality in recent memory. Residents have been told to stay inside, and the Chinese government ordered...
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9 species of animals that are having more fun than you
As humans, we like to think that we have a monopoly on living the good life. But we shouldn't assume that other animals don't also enjoy their lives and revel in their extraordinary abilities. Here...
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A basketball court straight out of Tron
For those of you looking to re-create the Tron gaming experience, this new flooring technology from Germany's ASB Systembau GMBH may be the thing for you. Billed as "the most advanced flooring system...
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Pubic grooming is making crab lice an endangered species
Over the past decade, doctors have noticed a dramatic decrease in reported cases of crab lice, also known as pubic lice (Phthirus pubis). The reason, they say, is actually quite simple: the rise in...
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"Elephant taunting" is now a thing in India
Environmentalist website Conservation India is reporting on the rise of a new and disturbing spectator sport that has emerged in south India's Coimbatore forests. It's the practice of "elephant...
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Check out these stunning macro-focus shots of butterfly and moth wings
For the past four years, photographer and biochemist Linden Gledhill has been taking macro focus shots of various butterfly and moth wings. Gledhill, who has also photographed natural and homegrown...
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Bruce Sterling Thinks Artificial Intelligence Has Jumped the Shark
Bruce Sterling wrote influential works like Schismatrix and Islands in the Net, plus he practically invented cyberpunk (with all due respect, of course, to William Gibson and Rudy Rucker). We are...
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Japan’s tsunami created large dunes on the ocean floor
The Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami brought unimaginable devastation to the coastal areas of Japan in March 2011. But as a new study in Marine Geology suggests, it also reshaped the ocean floor,...
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NASA sends Mona Lisa to the Moon with a laser
Since 2009, NASA has tracked the position of its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter with a laser. But in an effort to push interplanetary communications technology forward, the space agency recently used...
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Archaeologists Mistake Viking Brewhouses For Bathhouses
For years, archaeologists studying Viking remnants and artifacts in Britain had assumed that certain stone structures were bathhouses, or a kind of primitive sauna. But a husband-and-wife team has now...
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Why We Should Switch To A Base-12 Counting System
Humans, for the most part, count in chunks of 10 — that's the foundation of the decimal system. Despite its near-universal adoption, however, it's a completely arbitrary numbering system that emerged...
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Are there perfectly preserved WWII-era Spitfire airplanes buried in the...
A British team of archaeologists and surveyors are currently in Burma searching for dozens of Spitfire airplanes that were allegedly buried while still in their crates when World War II came to a...
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Wanted: An "extremely adventurous female human" to give birth to a Neandertal
German magazine Der Spiegel has just published an interview with geneticist George Church in which he talks about his work as a biologist and his idea of making humans resistant to all viruses. But he...
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