Tim Sullivan, Sci-Fi Author and Actor, Dies at 76
He wrote three novels based on Kenneth Johnson’s ‘V’ television franchise and starred in such low-budget films as ‘Twilight ...
Smithsonian Magazine9h
Scientists Are Using CT Scanners to Reveal the Secrets of More Than Two Dozen Ancient Egyptian Mummies
For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum's collections. Their findings ...
Scientists Think ‘Hurricanes of Light’ Could Future-Proof the Internet
New research uses electric fields to manipulate metallic nanoparticles capable of producing vortices within the laser light.
New Scientist12h
Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...
John Krasinski is the Sexiest Man Alive — but what makes someone sexy in the first place? Here's what science says.
Each year, People magazine crowns a Sexiest Man Alive, and while the title often comes with plenty of debate (no Ryan Gosling ...
Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize for the First Time
A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could ...
Scientists Think Gravity Isn’t Just a Force—It’s an Untapped Quantum Field
Gravity is the only major force in the universe that doesn’t fit into our current quantum framework, driving the pursuit of a ...
Nature18h
Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means?
This is the basis for specialized, AI-powered science search engines such as Consensus and Elicit. Most companies do not ...
Climate change is threatening Florida's Key deer
As the United States continues to feel the effects of global warming and rising sea levels, there is renewed concern for the ...
The Harvard Crimson23h
Science Is Being Threatened. Researchers Can’t Stand By.
As a prospective physician-scientist, I worry about the potential implications of this shift for public health policy. Voices on the right have too often sidelined or even undermined important ...
New Scientist1d
Orbital wins the Booker prize: “I see it as a kind of space pastoral"
Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...
Interesting Engineering1d
Scientist cures stage 3 cancer without chemo using lab-grown viruses, docs say unethical
A scientist who was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer treated herself using lab-grown viruses, a method researchers say is 'not ...