Science
This Brain-Scanning Quantum Device Is a 'Game Changer,' Researchers Say
“The difference between having a sensor only a millimeter away... from the conventional superconducting sensors that are centimetres away, is gigantic."
The Italian Town That Built Its Own Sun
Surrounded by mountains and left in the dark for three months a year, a town in northern Italy has found a creative solution to its sunlight problem.
What You Think You Know About the T-Rex Is Wrong
"In films like 'Jurassic Park', the dinosaur was painted as a monster, when it wasn’t,” says palaeontologist Pasha van Bijlert.
This Guy Had a Piece of His Brain Removed. Now He Can’t Feel Fear.
“I'm talking about the fear you'd feel when facing death or serious injury. That's the fear that was removed.”
How Academic Pirate Alexandra Elbakyan Is Fighting Scientific Misinformation
With its paywall, the publishing industry is crippling research. Sci-Hub is helping make research accessible.
Scientists Successfully Entangled Quantum 'Memories'. What?
In the latest advance towards a quantum internet, scientists entangled "memories" located in separate labs.
Filipino Scientist Goes 10,000 Meters Down the Ocean and Finds a Teddy Bear
The stuffed animal was far from his only surprising discovery in the third deepest point in the world.
Scientists Want to Smell Ocean Radiation to Predict Tsunamis
We don’t know a whole lot about how radioactive the ocean is, but it would help predict disasters if we did.
Earth's Biodiversity Could Take Millions of Years to Recover from Human Influence
A new study concludes that extinction rates for gastropods during the fifth mass extinction were worse than believed, and the sixth could be even bigger.
Activist Archivists Are Trying to Save the ‘Pirate Bay of Science’
Facing lawsuits and legal trouble, archivists are working to save 77TB of freely available scientific data.
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.