Category: Science
Scientists Found a Key Neurological Switch That Makes Human Brains So Large
What is it about humans that separates us from non-human primates, our closest living relatives? One of the biggest differentiators, scientifically speaking, is the size…
Thousands of Jellyfish Are Dying Worldwide, And ‘The Blob’ Could Play a Role
Like a tourist on a cruise ship, the by-the-wind sailor jellyfish (Velella velella) spends its days drifting aimlessly through the open sea, gorging itself on an endless…
A Telescope Sunk Into World’s Deepest Lake Has Started The Hunt For ‘Ghost Particles’
A new telescope below the surface of the world’s deepest lake has commenced a hunt for the Universe’s most elusive particles. These tiny particles, neutrinos,…
For The First Time, Twisted Light Reveals Magnetic Fields Around The Black Hole M87*
The goalposts of science are always shifting. An achievement is never absolute – each new discovery is the doorway to a cascading series of other…
How to Kill a Zombie Fire
That’s because deluging a zombie isn’t guaranteed to quickly kill it. Say you’re pumping massive quantities across a peatland, like firefighters did in North Carolina….
Vast Fragments of an Alien World Could Be Buried Deep Within Earth Itself
They are among the largest and strangest of all structures on Earth: huge, mysterious blobs of dense rock lurking deep within the lowermost parts of…
Flu Shots Are Linked to a Drop in COVID-19 Infections, And Scientists Aren’t Sure Why
Getting a flu shot is not the same thing as getting a COVID-19 vaccination. If it were, the world would be in a very different…
Neuroscientists Detect Confused ‘Zombie’ Cells in The Human Brain After Death
You’d think once a human is dead, the body would be done doing things; without blood circulation and air, the inner systems would be fast…
We Just Got Even More Evidence of Humans Interbreeding With Mysterious Denisovans
Island Southeast Asia has one of the largest and most intriguing hominin fossil records in the world. But our new research suggests there is another…
More Results From The Large Hadron Collider Point to Entirely New Physics
Update (24 March 2021): The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment is still insisting there’s a flaw in our best model of particle physics. As explained…