Sarah Wells
Archeologists Discover Huge Stone Penis in Ancient Roman Ruins
The hefty phallus is 17 inches long and may be the biggest example from ancient Rome ever discovered.
Scientists Achieve the Impossible, Safely Destroy Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’
The "forever" in "forever chemicals" is now a lot shorter than we thought thanks to a new method of safely breaking them down.
AI Is Discovering Its Own ‘Fundamental’ Physics And Scientists Are Baffled
AI observed videos of lava lamps and inflatable air dancers and identified dozens of physics variables that scientists don't yet understand.
Quantum Scientists Create New Phase of Matter With Two Time Dimensions
A new approach "effectively lets us squash two time-dimensions into a single time direction" and make quantum qubits more stable, scientists say.
Supercomputer Helps Locate Home of 4 Billion-Year-Old Martian Meteorite
The mysterious 'Black Beauty' meteorite contains Martian rocks that are 4.48 billion years old, and has rare magnetic properties.
US Wildlife Officials Declare 23 Species Extinct
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the extinctions on Wednesday, which included the iconic ivory-billed woodpecker.
Starlight Could Really Be a Vast Alien Quantum Internet, Physicist Proposes
What if the universe is a giant alien chatroom, and we just can't understand it?
The Universe Is a Giant Donut That We Live Inside, New Research Suggests
The idea that the universe has a 3D torus shape ties in to some pretty far-out stuff, like the CIA’s 1980s Gateway report on psychic phenomena.
Science Had a Misinformation Problem Before COVID. Scientists Want to Fix It
Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom are two scientists studying how the publishing industry pushes misinformation, and how to make it better.
Scientists Create Record-Breaking Laser With Mind Blowing Power
The laser pulse's power is comparable to "focusing all the sunlight reaching Earth to a spot of 10 microns"—the size of a speck of dust.
Study That Said Smokers Get COVID Less Often Retracted for Big Tobacco Ties
The attention-grabbing study found smokers were 23% less likely to catch COVID-19, and now it's been retracted by the journal that published it.
How NASA Is Pushing a Software Update to Mars to Get Ingenuity Flying
Updating software can be a pain. To pull off the first powered flight on an alien world, NASA is pushing a software update from Earth to Mars.