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A Japanese study finally explains in detail how cats almost always land on their feet, and the secret lies in a very specific, flexible part of their spine
Albert Einstein, scientist: “Education is what remains after you have forgotten what you learned in school”
The diet of hunter-gatherers in Europe thousands of years ago was far more varied, rich, and appetizing than we had been led to believe for decades
A 333-meter aircraft carrier and a missile destroyer arrive in Panamanian waters with thousands of U.S. sailors, and the stop comes as Washington moves one of its most visible naval symbols through Latin America
What appeared to be a simple “snot” toy that captivated children in the 1980s and 1990s was, in fact, a fluid that stretches, wrinkles, and hardens, and is capable of behaving like both a liquid and a solid at the same time
If spiders suddenly disappeared from Earth, the initial relief many people would feel would be short-lived, as the ecological and biological void they would leave behind would be quite severe
After 14 years in space, a NASA probe is about to return to Earth in the least graceful way possible, but there is no real cause for alarm
For the first time, scientists have managed to restore electrical activity in a frozen mouse brain, and that single sentence is enough to spark curiosity, a sense of wonder, and many questions
Stephen Hawking, scientist: “I don’t think humanity will survive the next thousand years, at least not without expanding into space”
Italy’s second-richest man makes a disturbing comment about artificial intelligence and companies that, almost without saying so, are training their own replacements
CERN has detected a particle similar to a proton, but about four times heavier, and so rare that detecting it has been much more complicated than it seems
Japanese scientists have created a device capable of converting sweat into electricity, and the idea seems so outlandish that it is hard not to want to find out how it works
There is a small organ in your body that almost no one talks about, and it turns out it might be much more important to your immune system than we have been led to believe for years
The planet’s green belt is shifting, and scientists are concerned: terrestrial vegetation is moving northeast at an accelerating rate
There is already a list of 45 planets that could come in handy if Earth were to find itself in a truly dire situation, and that number gives us plenty of room to dream up a Plan B.
They have created a molecule never before seen in nature with an extremely strange half-Möbius topology, and even the electrons behave in a very unusual way inside it
What if DNA were telling a story of unequal attraction between sapiens and Neanderthals that is far more human, complex, and uncomfortable than we had imagined until now?









