Philip O’Keefe, a 62-year-old amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patient in Australia recently became the first person to post a message on social media using only his thoughts. On December 23, he posted an initial brief […]
Dystopian nightmare or a simple convenience? A Swedish company implanting microchips under the skin has is promoting its devices for use as a COVID-19 health pass in a country with thousands of early adopters.This article […]
An alternative statistical method honed and advanced by Cornell researchers can make clinical trials more reliable and trustworthy while also helping to remedy what has been called a “replicability crisis” in the scientific community.This article […]
Hi Isaac, this is a really interesting question and something that lots of people wonder about when the seasons change. In the autumn, lots of plants (especially trees) throw away their leaves. These are great […]
Who invented video games? TJ, age 7, Worcester, Massachusetts Some people just love to play. Give them a ball, or a pen, or a pile of leaves and they’ll find a way to play with […]
A NASA video showing how the Earth’s magnetic field protects from the solar wind. The particles that make up the solar wind are deflected by Earth’s magnetic field, so they mostly pass around the Earth […]
An international research team led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a material that—when coated on a glass window panel—can effectively self-adapt to heat or cool rooms across different climate […]
How are languages formed? — Pearl, 12, Regina, Sask. Easily! In fact, you can create a new language right now. Simply choose some sounds, like “f,” “m,” and “e,” and invent words with them: fme could mean […]
Achieving consensus among countries in global climate negotiations is a long and complicated process. Researchers at Linköping University have developed a mathematical model that describes the achievement of the 2015 Paris Agreement and that may […]
A pair of researchers at the University of Oxford has found that over the past few decades, the outcome of European League professional football (soccer in the U.S.) matches has become more predictable. In their […]
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