Stunning Fossil Reveals Brutal Squid Attack From 200 Million Years Ago
About 200 million years ago, a brutal underwater attack took place in the Atlantic. A squid-like creature, armed with 10 tentacles studded with hooks, swam…
When Should You Get Tested For Coronavirus Antibodies? An Expert Explains
As states and countries begin rolling back their lockdown restrictions, the results of widespread antibody testing may guide policies on whether schools can reopen or…
Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking
Security paranoiacs have warned for years that any laptop left alone with a hacker for more than a few minutes should be considered compromised. Now…
What Goes On in a Proton? Quark Math Still Needs Answers
Objects are made of atoms, and atoms are likewise the sum of their parts—electrons, protons, and neutrons. Dive into one of those protons or neutrons,…
Scientists Find The First Animal That Doesn’t Need Oxygen to Survive
Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable. The sky is up. Gravity sucks. Nothing can travel faster than light. Multicellular…
Science Fairs Are Canceled. Maybe That’s Just as Well
The global pandemic has eliminated so many public events, and it sucks. Sports, canceled. Concerts, canceled. Graduations, canceled. In Louisiana, where I live, there are…
Even If Climate Change Wasn’t Happening, Phasing Out Coal Is A ‘No-Regret’ Solution
The benefits of phasing out coal far outweigh the real-world costs, scientists say, and that’s the case even when climate change is left out of…
This summer’s severe temperatures could make the pandemic even more complicated
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Scientists Have Developed a Membrane That Separates CO2 From Other Gases
Scientists have developed a new type of self-assembling silver membrane that could be used to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions before they have a chance…
Physicists Think They’ve Found a New Way to Stabilise And Control Fusion Reactors
A team of research physicists at Princeton University may have found a new way to control fusion reactions inside doughnut-shaped tokamak reactors — an incremental step…