Picture a bridge made of legos. One side has three supporting pieces, the other two. How would you stabilize the bridge? Most people would add…
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Climate change may be causing more lightning in the Arctic. Data from a global network of lightning sensors suggests that lightning frequency in the region…
As the light shines constantly on a silver slip of a fish, tiny dots begin to flash: blue, yellow, blue, yellow. The bodies "do not…
He watches as a group of lions yawn and may look like nothing more than big, lazy cats acting asleep, but new research suggests these…
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For the first time, physicists used lasers to freeze antimatter. In a new experiment, an ultraviolet laser suffered from the thermal concerns of the antihydrogen…
Representations of extinct human ancestors and cousins tend to be more art than science. Take, for example, two reconstructions of the Taung boy, a 2.8…
An old dirty trick is still with us. However, other financial matters change quickly. Check out this week's financial report. Tax and social security fraudsters…
The Kalahari Desert, in southern Africa, is not normally considered a hotbed of Stone Age innovations. And yet, human culture flourished there about 105,000 years…
A century ago, people needed help to understand science. Much like they do today. So, like now, it wasn’t always easy to classify the exact…