Participants meditated inside an MRI tube, with and without psilocybin. For about a decade, the mainstream understanding has been that […]
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Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone
Dissolved rock precipitated around the tools, which then decayed. Credit: Gerard Campeny / IPHES-CERCA The Stone Age owes its name […]
What’s been driving Hawaii’s lava fountains?
Skip to content Before the lava fountains started, the ground was expanding by half a meter a day. In most […]
AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
Credit: Nguyen Nam Nhat. Last month we covered the winner of Nikon’s Small World in Motion video: Ning Xu of […]
R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing
Skip to content Hamilton also coined the term “software engineering” and founded two successful software companies. Credit: NASA/Public domain Margaret […]
An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light
A quanta of mysteriousness Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light. Writing […]
Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand
Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life. This molecule can have different chiralities based on how its […]
If you’re looking, here’s a “good deal” for NASA and the European Space Agency
“We are in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the […]
It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane
A low-pressure system in the western Gulf of Mexico should soon become a tropical storm, and based on the latest […]
Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize
Francis Halzen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive […]