Science Friday

Coronavirus Genetics, Prosthetic Hands. March 6, 2020, Part 1

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A New Trick For Dexterity In Prosthetic Hands Researchers working on the next generation of prosthetic limbs have a few fundamental engineering proble...

Coronavirus Preparedness, Facebook’s History. Feb 28, 2020, Part 2

28 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the world’s attention has turned to the spread of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that was first detected in Wuhan, China, late in 201...

Degrees of Change: Building Materials. Feb 28, 2020, Part 1

28 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In order to slow a warming planet on track to increase by 2 degrees celsius, nearly every industry will be forced to adapt: airlines, fashion, and eve...

Coronavirus Update, Genuine Fakes, Neanderthal News. Feb. 21, 2020, Part 2

21 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What Is Real And Fake? There are two ways to grow a diamond. You can dig one up from the Earth—a product of billions of years of pressure and heat p...

Ask A Dentist. Feb. 21, 2020, Part 1

21 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Brushing Up On Tooth Science Most of us spend our time at the dentist holding our mouths open, saying “ahhh,” and occasionally sticking out our to...

Building A Ghost Heart, The Effect Of Big Tech. Feb 14, 2020, Part 2

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The human heart is one of the most complicated organs in our body. The heart is, in a way, like a machine—the muscular organ pumping about 2,000 gal...

Great Lakes Book Club Wrap-Up, California Groundwater. Feb 14, 2020, Part 1

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Great Lakes hold 20% of the world’s surface drinking water, with Lake Superior holding half of that alone. The lakes stretch from New York to Mi...

SciFri Extra: The Marshall Islands Stare Down Rising Seas

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a country of 58,000 people spread across 29 coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean. And in a world where seas are b...

Tech And Empathy, The Ball Method. Feb 7, 2020, Part 2

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How Tech Can Make Us More—And Less—Empathetic Much of technology was built on the promise of connecting people across the world, fostering a sense...

Degrees Of Change: How Native American Communities Are Addressing Climate Change. Feb 7, 2020, Part 1

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How Native American Communities Are Addressing Climate Change Indigenous peoples are one of the most vulnerable communities when it comes to the effec...

Breast Cancer Cultural History, Butterfly Wings. Jan 31, 2020, Part 2

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

‘Radical’ Explores The Hidden History Of Breast Cancer  Nearly 270,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, along with a couple t...

Coronavirus Update, Invasive Species. Jan 31, 2020, Part 1

31 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tracking The Spread Of The Coronavirus Outbreak This week, the World Health Organization declared that the coronavirus outbreak—which began in Wuh...

SciFri Extra: Revisiting Unique Science Stories Of 2019

28 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

2020 has just begun, but we’re still celebrating all the amazing work done by science journalists in 2019. Thanks to them, we’ve been informed on ...

Coronavirus, Great Lakes Drinking Water. Jan 24, 2020, Part 1

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A novel coronavirus—the type of virus that causes SARS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and common cold symptoms—has killed 18 people, an...

Feathered Dino, Clinical Trials, Coffee Extraction. Jan 24, 2020, Part 2

24 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Before any new drug comes to market, it goes through a time-consuming process. Researchers have to recruit human subjects for a clinical trial, collec...

Polling Science, Gar-eat Lakes. Jan 17, 2020, Part 1

17 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Science Of Polling In 2020 And Beyond In today’s fast-paced digital culture, it is more difficult than ever to follow and trust political polls....

Biorobots, The Math Of Life, Science Comics. Jan 17, 2020, Part 2

17 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Living Robots, Designed By Computer Researchers have used artificial intelligence methods to design ‘living robots,’ made from two types of frog c...

Migraines, Galaxy Formation. Jan 10, 2020, Part 2

10 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Mysteries Of Migraines What do sensitivity to light, a craving for sweets and excessive yawning have in common? They’re all things that may let ...

Australia Fires, Great Lakes Book Club. Jan 10, 2020, Part 1

10 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How Climate Change Is Fanning Australia’s Flames  All eyes have been on Australia in recent weeks as the country’s annual summer fire season has ...

Geoengineering Climate Change, Tasmanian Tiger, New Water Plan. Jan 3, 2020, Part 1

03 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the context of climate change, geoengineering refers to deliberate, large-scale manipulations of the planet to slow the effects of human-induced gl...

Christmas Bird Count. Jan 3, 2020, Part 2

03 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For many, the new year means looking back on the past accomplishments and checking off your goals. For birders, it means tallying up your species list...

2019 Year In Review. Dec 27 2019, Part 1

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

 In 2019 we experienced some painful and heartbreaking moments—like the burning of the Amazon rainforest, a worldwide resurgence of measles cases, ...

Looking Back at the Pale Blue Dot. Dec 27, 2019, Part 2

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Few people could put the cosmos in perspective better than astronomer Carl Sagan. And that’s why we’re taking this opportunity to take another lis...

Emerging Technologies, Pokémon In The Brain, Colds And Flu. Dec 20, 2019, Part 1

20 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Back when Science Friday began in 1991, the Internet, as we know it, didn’t even exist. While ARPA-NET existed and the first web pages began to come...

Space Junk, Chronobiology, Mistletoe. Dec 20, 2019, Part 2

20 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As more commercial companies are getting into the satellite launching game, space is becoming a crowded place and all of these objects are creating sp...

Degrees of Change: Transportation. December 13, 2019, Part 1

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Transportation—whether it be your car, aircraft, cargo ships, or the heavy trucks carrying all those holiday packages—makes a big contribution to ...

Insulin Marketplace, Hair, Whale Size. December 13, 2019, Part 2

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Why Diabetes Patients Are Getting Insulin From Facebook Almost one in ten Americans are diagnosed with diabetes, according to the most recent statist...

Undiscovered Presents: Spontaneous Generation

11 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

These days, biologists believe all living things come from other living things. But for a long time, people believed that life would, from time to tim...

Best Science Books and Board Games of 2019. Dec 6, 2019, Part 2

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In a year jam-packed with fast-moving science news and groundbreaking research, books can provide a more slower-paced, reflective look at the world ar...

Parker Solar Probe, Slime Molds. Dec 6, 2019, Part 1

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In August 2018, NASA sent the Parker Solar Probe off on its anticipated seven-year-long mission to study the sun. Already, it has completed three of i...

SciFri Extra: Bringing Environmental Justice To The Classroom

30 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Diaz, a Bay Area science teacher, grew up in Pittsburg, California near chemical plants and refineries. That experience, combined with watching ...

Science Awards Of The Sillier Sort. Nov 29, 2019, Part 2

29 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The 2019 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony is a tribute to offbeat and quirky scientific studies. Here's some examples: Does pizza have a protective effect aga...

Imagining The Future Of AI / Face Mites. Nov 29, 2019, Part 1

29 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What can science fiction and social science  contribute to how we think about our algorithmic present and future? Science fiction writers and Hugo-wi...

Undiscovered Presents: Planet Of The Killer Apes

27 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In Apartheid-era South Africa, a scientist uncovered a cracked, proto-human jawbone. That humble fossil would go on to inspire one of the most blood-s...

Degrees of Change: Coral Restoration. Nov 22 2019, Part 1

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A quarter of the world’s corals are now dead, victims of warming waters, changing ocean chemistry, sediment runoff, and disease. Many spectacular, h...

Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, Marie Curie Play. Nov 22, 2019, Part 2

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For most Americans, the story of the Hubble Space Telescope began on April 24th, 1990, the launch date of the now 30 year-old observatory. But for ast...

Undiscovered Presents: Like Jerry Springer For Bluebirds

20 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“Do men need to cheat on their women?” a Playboy headline asked in the summer of 1978. Their not-so-surprising conclusion: Yes! Science says so! T...

Volume Control, Dermatology In Skin Of Color, Kelp Decline. Nov 15, 2019, Part 2

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dermatologists presented with a new patient have a number of symptoms to look at in order to diagnose. Does the patient have a rash, bumps, or scaling...

EPA Transparency Proposal, Tick Milking. Nov 15, 2019, Part 1

15 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a House Committee held a hearing to review an Environmental Protection Agency proposal called ‘Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory ...

SciFri Extra: Add A Dash Of Science To Your Thanksgiving Recipes

13 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This Thanksgiving, put your cooking skills to the test. Looking for tips to avoid singed sweet potatoes, acrid apple pies, and a burned bird? In this ...

Infant Formula, AI Weirdness, Venus Fly Traps. Nov. 8, 2019, Part 2

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Would you feel comfortable consuming a product that listed “whey protein concentrate” and “corn maltodextrin” on its list of ingredients? What...

Biomedical Espionage, Einstein’s Eclipse, Transit Of Mercury. Nov. 8, 2019, Part 1

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The FBI, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other agencies who oversee federal research grants are currently asking if the open culture of scien...

Moths, Alan Alda, Graveyard Lichens. Nov 1, 2019, Part 2

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There are over 160,000 species of moths worldwide, and they come in all different shapes and sizes. For example, the Comet Moth, native to the rainfor...

PFAS Lawsuit, Bat Disease. Nov 1, 2019, Part 1

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Eighteen years ago, a lawyer named Robert Bilott sent a letter to the EPA, the attorney general, and other regulators, warning them about a chemical c...

“Black Software” Book, Mucus. Oct 25, 2019, Part 2

25 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When the World Wide Web was first being developed, African American software engineers, journalists and entrepreneurs were building search engines, di...

Spiders, Quantum Supremacy, Missouri Runoff. Oct 25, 2019, Part 1

25 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Spiders were one of the first animals to evolve on land. And over the span of 400 million years of speciation and evolution, they’ve learned some am...

Policing And Mental Health, Ancient Clams, Moon Plan. Oct. 18, 2019, Part 2

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the 1980s and 1990s, in the midst of rising crime rates and a nationally waning confidence in policing, law enforcement around the country adopted ...

Degrees Of Change: Climate Change Migration. Oct. 18, 2019, Part 1

18 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When the water rises, whether from heavy rains or rising seas, communities have a few options: reinforce flood-threatened homes, rebuild after the wat...

Office Air Pollution, Tetris Decisions, Alzheimer's Update. Oct 11, 2019, Part 2

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If you live and work in an urban area, you might think about the air quality outside your home or workplace. But what about the air quality inside the...

Trust In Science, California Power Outages, Regrowing Cartilage. Oct 11, 2019, Part 1

11 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Despite widely reported attacks on science, the vast majority of Americans continue to trust scientists, according to the latest survey from the Pew R...

Bread Baking Science And Denial In Climate Report. Oct 4, 2019, Part 2

04 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Flour, salt, yeast and water are the basic ingredients in bread that can be transformed into a crusty baguette or a pillowy naan. But what happens whe...

Data-Collecting Smart TVs, Microbiome Cooking, Cannabis Pollution. Oct 4, 2019, Part 1

04 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Today, it’s much easier to find smart TVs on the market. Companies like Vizio and Samsung create devices capable of internet connection and with bui...

Bitters And Botany, Whale Evolution. Sept 27, 2019, Part 2

27 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Can conservation be concocted in your cocktails? Yes, according to the botanist authors of Botany at the Bar, a new book about making your own bitter...

Oceans And Climate, Quantum Mechanics. Sept 27, 2019, Part 1

27 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A new report issued this week by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change paints a troubling picture of the world’s ice and oceans. The ...

Bird Populations In Decline, Real Life Sci-Fi Disasters, Brain Wiring. Sept 20, 2019, Part 2

20 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

There may be almost 3 billion fewer birds in North America today than there were in 1970, according to a study published this week in the journal Sc...

Degrees Of Change: Climate And Fashion. Sept 20, 2019, Part 1

20 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Climate change has been trending in the news recently—and if there’s one industry out there that knows something about trends, it’s the fashion...

The Center Of The Milky Way, Rats At Play, And Geometry. Sept 13, 2019, Part 2

13 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Greek mathematician Euclid imagined an ordered and methodical universe, but his vision struggled to catch on for centuries, until Renaissance pai...

How AI Is Influencing Decisions In Police Departments And Courtrooms. Sept 13, 2019

13 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Facial recognition technology is all around us—it’s at concerts, airports, and apartment buildings. But its use by law enforcement agencies and co...

SciFri Extra: Bird Nerds Of A Feather Flock Together

11 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Science Friday Book Club is done birding—for now. But after wrapping up our summer discussion of Jennifer Ackerman’s The Genius of Birds, bird...

Randall Munroe, Football Concussion Research. Sept 6, 2019, Part 2

06 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever been skiing, you might have wondered how your skiis and the layer of water interact. What would happen if the slope was made out of w...

Widening The Lens On A More Inclusive Science. Sept 6, 2019, Part 1

06 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 2012, the Obama administration projected that the United States would need to add an additional 1 million college graduates in STEM fields per year...

Vaping Sickness, Teaching Science. Aug 30, 2019, Part 2

30 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Over 10 million Americans vape, or smoke electronic cigarettes. E-cigarettes are also the most popular tobacco product among teenagers in this country...

Degrees of Change: Tourism. Aug 30, 2019, Part 1

30 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Each year, outdoor enthusiasts in the country spend nearly $900 billion dollars on hiking, fishing and other types of outdoor recreation. The differen...

Climate And Farming, Mars 2020, Fireflies. August 23, 2019, Part 2

23 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From cutting back on fossil fuels to planting a million trees, people and policymakers around the world are looking for more ways to curb climate chan...

Book Club Birds, Amazon Burning. August 23, 2019, Part 1

23 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“Bird-brain” has long been an insult meant to imply slow-wittedness or stupidity. But in reading Jennifer Ackerman’s The Genius of Birds, SciFri...

Live in San Antonio: Deadly Disease, Bats, Birds. Aug. 16, 2019, Part 2

16 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine stepping into a white suit, pulling on thick rubber gloves and a helmet with a clear face plate. You can only talk to your colleagues through ...

Lightning, Electric Scooters, News Roundup. Aug. 16, 2019, Part 1

16 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lightning during a heavy rainstorm is one of the most dramatic phenomena on the planet—and it happens, somewhere on Earth, an estimated 50 to 100 ti...

Northwest Passage Project, Birds and Color. Aug 9, 2019, Part 1

09 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

First, tardigrades on the moon, feral hogs on Earth, and more news from this week’s News Roundup. Scientists and students navigated the Northwest Pa...

Wiring Rural Texas, Visiting Jupiter and Saturn. Aug 9, 2019, Part 2

09 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

High-speed internet access is becoming a necessity of modern life, but connecting over a million rural Texans is a challenge. How do we bridge the dig...

Is Chemical Sunscreen Safe, Slime, Amazon Deforestation. August 2, 2019, Part 2

02 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sunscreen has been on the shelves of drugstores since the mid-1940s. And while new kinds of sunscreens have come out, some of the active ingredients i...

Ethics Of Hawaiian Telescope, Bird Song, Alaska Universities Budget Cut. August 2, 2019, Part 1

02 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in Hawaii, towering over the Pacific at nearly 14,000 feet. That high altitude, combined with the mountain’s dry, ...

Ice Cream Science, Online Language. July 26, 2019, Part 2

26 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever tried to make your favorite rocky road flavored ice cream at home, but your chocolate ice cream turns out a little crunchier than you ho...

Anonymous Data, Birding Basics. July 26, 2019, Part 1

26 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Science Friday Book Club is buckling down to read Jennifer Ackerman’s The Genius of Birds this summer. Meanwhile, it’s vacation season, and ...

Moon Art, Space History, And NASA's Megarocket. July 19, 2019, Part 2

19 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Our Lunar Muse Most of us remember that iconic photograph of the Apollo 11 moon landing: Buzz Aldrin standing on a footprint-covered moon, one arm b...

Apollo Anniversary And Bird Book Club. July 19, 2019, Part 1

19 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrating Apollo's 'Giant Leap' July 20, 1969 was a day that changed us forever—the first time humans left footprints on another world. In this se...

Mosquitos and Smell, Fermentation, Model Rocket Launch. July 12, 2019, Part 2

12 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

If you’ve ever tried brewing your own beer or raising your own sourdough, then you know that the process of fermentation isn't easy to get right. H...

Degrees of Change: Food and Climate. July 12, 2019, Part 1

12 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from putting food on the table. From the fossil fuels used to produce fertilizers, to the met...

The Bastard Brigade, Spontaneous Generation. July 5, 2019, Part 2

05 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Much has been written about the Manhattan Project, the American-led project to develop the atomic bomb. Less well known is Nazi Germany’s “Uranium...

Science Road Trips, Archaeology From Space. July 5, 2019, Part 1

05 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Summer is here—and that means it’s time for a road trip! Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, co-authors of Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the ...

Paternity, Musical Proteins, Microbiome In Runners. June 28, 2019, Part 2

28 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

These days, a scientific paternity test is easily acquired, and its results are seen as almost indisputable. But what about the days before so-called ...

Cephalopod Week Wrap-Up, USDA Climate Change, Sinking Louisiana. June 28, 2019, Part 1

28 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The eight-day squid-and-kin appreciation extravaganza of Cephalopod Week is nearly over, but there’s still plenty to learn and love about these tent...

SciFri Extra: About Time

25 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The official U.S. time is kept on a cesium fountain clock named NIST-F1, located in Boulder, Colorado. On a recent trip to Boulder, Ira took a trip to...

Smoke Chasers, Colorado Apples, Pikas. June 21, 2019, Part 2

21 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When wildfires rage in the West, Colorado State University atmospheric scientist Emily Fischer hops into a plane, and flies straight into the smoke. T...

Cephalopod Week 2019, Climate and Microbes, Puppy Eyes, Wave Energy. June 21, 2019, Part 1

21 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For eight glorious days during the end of June, Science Friday honors the mighty mollusks of the ocean—Cephalopod Week returns for the sixth year! A...

Degrees Of Change: Urban Heat Islands. June 14, 2019, Part 1

14 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve known for more than 200 years that cities are hotter than surrounding rural areas. All that concrete and brick soaks up the sun’s rays, then...

The Best Summer Science Books. June 14, 2019, Part 2

14 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The Best Science Books To Read This Summer They say a vacation is only as good as the book you bring with you. And these days it feels like there are ...

Quantum Leaps, Cancer Drugs, Cat Cameras. June 7, 2019, Part 2

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The “spooky physics” of the quantum world has long been marked by two key ideas: The idea of superposition, meaning that a quantum particle can ex...

Gender Bias In Research Trials, Antarctica, Tornado Engineering. June 7, 2019, Part 1

07 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For half a century, most neuroscience experiments have had one glaring flaw: They've ignored female study subjects. The reason? Researchers claimed, f...

SciFri Extra: Remembering Murray Gell-Mann

04 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Physicist Murray Gell-Mann died recently at the age of 89. He received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary partic...

Climate Politics, Football and Math, Ether. May 31, 2019, Part 2

31 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A green wave is sweeping through Washington, and it’s picking up Republicans who are eager to share their ideas on clean energy and climate change. ...

Spoiler Alert, Glyphosate, Unisexual Salamanders. May 31, 2019, Part 1

31 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How many times has this happened to you? You’re standing in front of an open freezer, wondering what type of mystery meat has been left in there, wh...

SciFri Extra: A Relatively Important Eclipse

28 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week marks the 100th anniversary of an eclipse that forever changed physics and our understanding of the universe. In May 1919, scientists set o...

Bees! May 24, 2019, Part 2

24 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For the hobby beekeeper, there’s much to consider when homing your first domestic honey bee colonies—what kind of hive to get, where to put them, ...

Ebola Outbreak, Climate Play, Navajo Energy. May 24, 2019, Part 1

24 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What would it take to power a subsea factory of the future? Plus, other stories from this week in science news. Then, as the last coal-fired power pla...

New Horizons Discovery, Science Fair Finalists, Screams. May 17, 2019, Part 2

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The most happening New Year’s Party of 2019 wasn’t at Times Square or Paris—it was in the small town of Laurel, Maryland, halfway between Baltim...

Degrees Of Change: Sea Level Rise, Coal-Use Decline. May 17, 2019, Part 1

17 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As the frequency of tropical storms and droughts increase and sea levels rise with climate change, forested wetlands along the Atlantic coast are slow...

Biodiversity Report And The Science Of Parenting. May 10, 2019, Part 2

10 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

According to a new UN report on global biodiversity, as many as one million species—both plants and animals—are now at risk of extinction, accordi...

Superconductivity Search, Ride-Share Congestion, Lions Vs. Porcupines. May 10, 2019, Part 1

10 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Six decades ago, a group of physicists came up with a theory that described electrons at a low temperature that could attract a second electron. If th...

Neuroscientists Peer Into The Mind's Eye, Alexander von Humboldt. May 3, 2019, Part 2

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It sounds like a sci-fi plot: Hook a real brain up to artificial intelligence, and let the two talk to each other. That’s the design of a new study...

Business Planning For Climate Change,The Digital Afterlife. May 3, 2019, Part 1

03 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists have built all sorts of models to predict the likelihood of extreme weather events. But it’s not just scientists who are interested in ...