Science
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Shooting light pulses down a 3-kilometer borehole could illuminate seismic hazards
A better understanding of how earthquakes occur and what happens during a rupture is important for assessing seismic risk. Small earthquakes, which are more fre...
Stem cells survive unexpectedly rough space travel
In early 2024, laboratory-grown neurospheres (i.e. clusters of neural stem cells) were sent to the International Space Station (ISS) to be exposed to microgravi...
Ask the expert: What voters need to know about the rise of political deepfakes
Artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever to create convincing fake political content and harder to tell what's real. Now, a University of Missouri...
Noncompetes suppress worker mobility and earnings without protecting trade secrets
Findings recently published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics provide, according to the study's authors, the clearest cause-and-effect evidence to date that...
Did the hot summer make more people worry about climate change?
This summer broke records around the U.K. for maximum temperatures and dry weather. According to the U.K.'s Met Office, while it was rare to hit 35°C (95°F) in...
Striking new images of unique supernova remnant reveal pearl-like chains
The only known supernova remnant of its kind in the Milky Way has an unexpectedly intricate structure: chains of gas knots resembling pearls on a string, each w...
Columbus' own writings reveal how tightly religion and conquest were intertwined from the start
Few historical figures are as divisive as Christopher Columbus. For some, in both Spain and the United States, he remains a great hero, an explorer who found a...
Anthropogenic warming reorganizes North Atlantic atmospheric circulation patterns
The weather over the North Atlantic affects hundreds of millions of people. From winter storms over Europe to cold spells in eastern North America, many of thes...
Why people keep looking for Noah's Ark in a natural rock formation in Turkey: A scholar of early Christianity explains
A team of researchers from Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey is investigating a long-standing claim: that a boat-shaped geological formation in the country'...
What happens when food-safety chemicals react with food?
Following the major Cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce, consumers might assume that produce labeled "triple-washed" offers greater protection from fo...
Heavy fermions emerge at an atomic-layer interface, unlocking new ways to design quantum materials
A research team led by the University of Osaka has directly observed, for the first time, an unusual heavy-fermion state forming at the boundary between a one-a...
Popular TikTok docs have big influence on Gen Z followers, new research finds
Young adults following physicians on TikTok consider them more accessible, credible and altruistic than their own doctors, even when the physician-influencers a...