Data

Science

What Is The Origin Of Life On Earth? Rain’s Crucial Role Offers A Big Hint

By Aman Agrawal and The Conversation
Science

Why Predictions Of A Decline In Scientific Research Never Came To Be — Not By A Long Shot

By David P. Baker, Justin J.W. Powell and The Conversation
Science

20 Years Ago, Two Physicists Made A Groundbreaking Discovery That Changed Technology Forever

By Stephen Lyth and The Conversation
Health

This Common Overlooked Condition Is Far More Debilitating Than Previously Thought, Study Suggests

By Rasha Al-Lami and The Conversation
Health

Pot Laws Are About To Change in 26 States — Here's What To Expect

By Boyoung Seo and The Conversation
Science

The Path To Better Internet Is With Flying Routers — Really

By Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Mariette DiChristina and The Conversation
Health

How The Netherlands Became The Tallest Nation In The World

By Kristina Thompson, Bjorn Quanjer and The Conversation
Science

Mind-Bending: The Hottest Day On Earth On Record Was Broken Twice Last Week

By Andrew King and The Conversation
Tech

The Unspoken Risks of Quantum Computing Could Come Back To Bite Us

By Stuart Rollo, James Der Derian, The Conversation and Chelsea Szmania
Science

Two Tornado Scientists Spill The Unsettling Truth About Storm Chasing

By Paul Markowski, Yvette Richardson and The Conversation
Health

Still Never Got Covid-19? The Reason Is Not What You Think

By Marko Nikolic, Kaylee Worlock and The Conversation
Science

4000 Years After Woolly Mammoths Went Extinct, We Might Finally Know Why

By Marianne Dehasque, Love Dalén and The Conversation
Science

It's Not Just You — Tornadoes Are Becoming Stronger, And More Frequent

By William Gallus and The Conversation
Science

Scientists Have Found a New Climate Tipping Point — And It’s Not What You Think

By Lauren Leffer
Science

To Prevent Traffic, Scientists Need To Better Understand These Basic Human Emotions

By Wesley Marshall and The Conversation
Science

A Geneticist Reveals What It Really Means to Have Viking DNA

By Shai Carmi, Harald Ringbauer and The Conversation
Dream Teams

Why an unexpected team is giving a famous work of art a necessary makeover

By Emma Betuel
Goooooooooal

The future of sports is algorithms, not athletes

By Sarah Wells
Spreading ahead

9 numbers that forecast the future of Coronavirus

By Sofia Quaglia
singularity

Predicted 'information catastrophe' may be caused by fifth state of matter

By Sarah Wells
Science

What's the next wave of Covid-19 look like? There is some good news

By Adam Kleczkowski
chill out

Wearable device slurps sweat to detect crucial health information

By Sarah Wells
Conspiracy theories

Scientists debunk a common theory about coronavirus

By Polly Hayes
Science

Solar storms are increasingly dangerous to civilization: Learn why

By Rami Qahwaji
Science

Covid-19’s deadliness in men is exposing a mistake of history

By Adam Moeser
Happy Holidays

Covid-19 and the holiday season: Tests, travel, and vaccine questions answered

By Katie MacBride
Science

How deadly is Covid-19? A biostatistician explores the question

By Ron Fricker
say cheese

Space scientists use 3.2 billion-pixel camera to take largest photo ever

By Sarah Wells
Mind and Body

The perfect diet? How one tiny change could dramatically boost longevity

By Laura Brown
brave little solar cells

The future of deep space travel could come down to tiny solar panels

By Sarah Wells
Seatbelts on

Why a classic physics phenomenon could prevent future car crashes

By Sarah Wells
foreshadowing

Ancient humans’ demise could foreshadow our own species’ extinction

By Sarah Wells
Mind and Body

Covid-19 "lab leak": Why it's worth looking into

By Virginie Courtier and Etienne Decroly
Mind and Body

Science debunks a viral belief about masturbation and testosterone

By Daniel Kelly and The Conversation
Science

Is watching porn during Covid-19 bad for your health? We asked 5 experts

By Liam Petterson
Science

Are the Earth’s magnetic poles about to swap places? Strange anomaly gives reassuring clue

By Yael Annemiek Engbers and Andrew Biggin
Fuck yeah, science

Scientists want to know why swear words share this one universal trait

By Elana Spivack
What They Knew

This oil giant accurately predicted global warming — and still lied about it

By Tara Yarlagadda
Robocop

Minneapolis police say data can prevent brutality. There's reason to be skeptical.

By David Grossman
Science

Ancient humans: 6 new discoveries unveil thousands of years of evolution

By Penny Spikins and The Conversation
Science

Does your homemade mask work? Here's how to tell.

By Simon Kolstoe
Science

Why Covid vaccines might not be enough

By Salim Abdool Karim, Liam Smith, John Thwaites, John N. Lavis, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Chris Bullen, Susan Michie and Yanis Ben Amor
Science

Nuclear fusion might finally be within our grasp

By Paul Norman and Lee Packer
watching you

Our secret weapon against the next pandemic could be hiding in plain sight

By Sarah Wells
Misinformation

Covid-19 statistics: 5 common errors armchair experts make

By Jacques Raubenheimer
Science

Do dogs really see in just black and white?

By Nancy Dreschel
Culture

The U.S. Senate is trying to steal your privacy while no one is looking.

By David Grossman
Mind and Body

Omicron XE: How worried should we be about this strange variant?

By Grace C Roberts and The Conversation
science

How sewage can detect the next pandemic

By Smruthi Karthikeyan and Rob Knight
Science

Oxford immunologist on coronavirus vaccine: our early results look highly promising

By Rebecca Ashfield