Climate change has never been more polarized by partisan belief. Say ‘thanks’ to mainstream media
Partisan belief is promoting anti-science views which might cost us all dearly.
Abandoned gold mine in Australia gets turned into novel renewable energy hub
One of the cleverest things we've seen in a long time. One up for the environment.
Brain interface enables monkeys to thought-type passages from Hamlet with 12 words per minute
That's three times faster than previous attempts.
The Gist of Climate Change explained in one Amazing XKCD Comic
Randall Munroe is back with yet another intelligent comic. This time he drew out a very complex subject in simple...
One of five American CEOs might be a psychopath
Good for business, bad for society.
Smokers who were lied that their cigarettes had zero nicotine also had their brains tricked
It's amazing how deception can fool even one of the strongest physical addictions.
The moon might have formed after the planet was completely vaporized by cosmic impact
Earth and moon can trace their history back to a violent cosmic clash.
Swiss startup demoes residential solar panels twice as efficient than what the market has to offer
Another confirmation that solar energy is moving fast.
MIT machine makes videos out of still images to predict what happens next
Some creepy deformities at large, but we get the idea: machines are getting smarter.
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin unveils new heavy-duty rocket design meant to sweep contracts away from SpaceX
Should Elon Musk be worried?
Environmental history encased in hippo teeth shows how poaching is altering Africa’s landscape
Poachers are destroying the delicate competitive balance between the two classes of plants in Africa's savannas.
Curiosity, not how much science you know, is the best predictor of unbiased opinions
Curiosity makes you resist the temptation to form opinions before you hear the science.
Air pollution inside your car is 40% higher during traffic jams, so keep windows closed and switch fans off
Urban air pollution has been classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) among the top ten health risks humans face.
High-power lasers create ‘smoke rings’ that travel along the beam with the speed of light
Smoke on the light, fire in the sky.
Book review: ‘Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America’
Altered States is a great scholarly work that attempts to dissect American Buddhism and psychedelics.
The next sexual revolution might be that of the human-robot intercourse
Weird times ahead.
Scientists debate the implication of life-altering tools that can wipe out species to save others
Some technologies are moving too fast for our ethics to keep up.
After fingerprint and DNA, now a protein test could complement forensic investigations
It could be a game-changer for law enforcement.
How blind people dream — the experience is just as rich, science says
Most blind people can't see in their dreams, but their experience is just as rich as everyone else's.
This is the first meal made with gene-edited CRISPR ingredients
Still delicious.
What is El Niño?
El Niño is an oscillation of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific which impacts weather patterns.
Brain circuit links sleep-wake cycle with reward system — a new potential target for insomnia drugs
A connection between reward and sleep has been found by neuroscientists. New drugs that target this circuit could help insomniacs...
How artificial intelligence will augment the typical North American city of 2030
Fifteen years from now in a North American suburb.
Woolly mammoths might become the first extinct species listed as protected to fight off ivory smugglers
Mammoth tusks are used as a front to launder illegal elephant ivory smuggling.
Carbon nanotube transistor outperform silicon for the first time — a turning point in electronics
Scientists devise the most promising carbon nanotube transistors yet.
Giant Panda no longer ‘endangered’ thanks to conservation efforts in China
Good news: giant pandas rebound!
The army’s amazing 1962 four-legged Pedipulator beat Star Wars to it by 15 years
The '60s were very creative.
Poachers responsible for 30% drop in savanna elephant populations in Africa
Africa's elephants might become endangered soon because of widespread poaching.
Newly found dwarf pterosaur species might re-write the ancient flying reptile’s evolutionary history
Not all flying reptiles were big.
Hidden Roman graveyard helps track the plague’s evolution from a mild stomach upset to a mass murderer
Tracking the plague's origins -- so something like it won't happen again.
Superman’s disguise could actually work — people wearing glasses are harder to recognize
And here I was thinking people in Metropolis are plain stupid.
The difference between a climate change skeptic and a climate change denier
The two aren't interchangeable.
A smart brain is not only big, but blood thirsty too
The brain needs a lot of blood to be smart.
Tasmanian devils evolve resistance to transmissible cancer that’s nearly 100% fatal
When all hope was thought to be lost, selection came to the rescue.
Interactive map shows which paths animals need to take to flee climate change
Visualizing the impending migration of birds, amphibians, and mammals.
Meteorites crashing into early Earth might have supplied all the precious biocompatible phosphorus
Scientists track how a critical chemical element for life got to our planet.
Lucy, our famous hominid ancestor, likely died falling from a tree
This isn't the final word, though.
Contact lenses deliver medicine straight to the eyeball
Eye drops are so last century.
Meet the Pipe: a beautiful desalinization plant that might one day serve 1.5 billion gallons of water to California
Who says desalinization isn't sexy?
Study wants to track EVERYTHING 10,000 New Yorkers do over 20 years, to unravel the mysteries of the human condition
It's very creepy, but might be a game changer in science.
Newly found galaxy is almost entirely made out of dark matter
A dark galaxy that a Sith Lord would enjoy.
New storage device combines attributes of both capacitors and batteries
The best of both worlds
Controversial study claims biofuels aren’t carbon neutral, says it’s much worse than gasoline
A long-standing assumption in science is being put into question.
How WiFi routers can be used to read lips, see through walls, identify people from a group or sniff keys
Router, we need to have a serious talk.
Endangered species need to wait 12 years on average for federal protection, six times more than mandated
This takes wait too long -- we need to make haste.
Proxima B is probably the closest planet to Earth we’ll ever find, and it might be habitable too
Fire those blasters. We're going exploring!
14 GIFs of products being made: deep inside the plant
I could look at these all day.