Could Humans Run on Water?
Nicole Sharp, Physics World
Far too heavy to be supported by surface tension, basilisk lizards and western grebes can sprint for short distances on water. To mark the 2024 Paris Olympics,...
Nicole Sharp, Physics World
Far too heavy to be supported by surface tension, basilisk lizards and western grebes can sprint for short distances on water. To mark the 2024 Paris Olympics,...
Max G. Levy, Sequencer
César de la Fuente's lab has a knack for finding antibiotics in usual places. He doesn't trudge through swamps or remote forests like a pharmacological Indiana Jones....
Ethan Siegel, Big Think
Why do machines learn? Even in the recent past, this would have been a ridiculous question, as machines — i.e., computers — were only capable of executing...
Seaver Wang, BI
In mid-June, John Oliver aired a segment on Last Week Tonight condemning proposals for deep sea mining, in this case...
David Adam, PNAS
The arrival of multicellularity around 700 million years ago was one of the most significant steps in the evolution of life. Yet, it's not clear why and how this happened....
Geoff Brumfiel, NPR
Can an AI chatbot make a person more creative?
Supporters of artificial intelligence say it can serve as a muse, but critics doubt it — they say that it does...
Clare Watson, Sci Alert
A loss of controlled inhibition of overly excited brain cells might explain how a common knock-out anesthesia drug works.
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Nicola Davis, Guardian
In 2029 an asteroid larger than the Eiffel Tower will skim past Earth in an event that until recently scientists had feared could foreshadow
Freda Kreier, Nature
Dogs' ability to feel your pain could be innate. It is the result of centuries of co-evolution with humans, suggests a community-science study that compared the...
Ross Pomeroy, RCSci
GLP-1 agonists are spreading like wildfire. Though only recently approved for weight loss in 2021 and type II diabetes in 2017, roughly one in eight Americans now say...
Ian Whittaker, Conv
For the past few weeks, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) after the first crewed voyage of Boeing's...
Olivia Rodrigo may have been excited to get her driver's license, but many young people are less enthused by car culture
The team saw its 13-game unbeaten streak come to an end with a 5-1 home thrashing against Columbus and must regroup for a first-place showdown on Wednesday night.
The U.S. has contended with unrelenting temperatures this summer, and a map from NASA paints a dire picture of the scale of those persistent heat waves.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose more than 700 points to close at another record high as the bull run appeared to broaden.
LAS VEGAS — Scores don’t mean much in Summer League. But the Nets hope spunk and spirit might. The Nets have shown a penchant for digging themselves into deep holes and then clawing their way out. Jalen Wilson The latest was a 92-85 come-from-behind victory over the Knicks at Thomas & Mack Arena. The Nets,...
There are three matches at the 32nd Palermo Ladies Open on July 18, highlighted by No. 7-ranked Qinwen Zheng against No. 99 Petra Martic. (...)
By Costa Constanti The Cypriot sea temperature has just broken the 30°C barrier – and it’s only mid-July! Most years the sea temperature rises to 27-28°C by mid-August and tapers off in mid-September. The relentless heatwave we’ve been experiencing this year in the Eastern Mediterranean is a stark warning of things to come. Less than […]
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The animal was located near Northwest Hart Street and "had likely been killed the same day and left to waste," officials said.
CNN panelists including commentator Van Jones collectively panned Vivek Ramaswamy's remarks Tuesday after the former GOP candidate for president tried to claim the media spent decades trying to convince Black Americans that Republicans "don't care" about them.
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A new study has shown that two two-fifths of men lie about their spice tolerance and that 25 per cent of men had eaten food that was too spicy for them just to impress others