Even Drastic CO2 Cuts Won’t Bring Back The Climate We’ve Lost
We’re so far down the road of climate change, that even making drastic cuts to atmospheric carbon dioxide levels won’t be enough for the world’s weather systems to fall back…
Crowds Can Cause Bridges to Sway Unnervingly, And We May Finally Know Why
You may have experienced an unsettling amount of swaying and wobbling if you’ve been on a bridge with large numbers of pedestrians traveling over it at the same time. Now,…
Physicists Claim They’ve Quantum Entangled a Tardigrade With a Qubit. But Have They?
A team of physicists claims to have entangled a superconducting qubit and a tardigrade, moving the freezing, tiny, and well-controlled world of quantum into the “hot and wet” systems of…
Why Invasive Plants Pushing Out Native Flora Is Pushing Us Closer to a ‘New Pangaea’
According to the first global analysis of plant diversity, the world’s flora is growing increasingly uniform, even on isolated islands like Australia. For decades now, scientists have been warning the…
This Robot Learned to Solve a Maze Using Mammal-Like ‘Brain’ Circuits For Memory
Rather than engineering robotic solutions from scratch, some of our most impressive advances have come from copying what nature has already come up with. New research shows how we can…
Archaeologists Find 2,000-Year-Old Lesson on Sea Level Changes Destroying Societies
Archaeologists have linked rising and lowering sea levels in the Atlantic Ocean to the ebbs and flows of ancient civilizations in southern Brazil. The findings, which incorporate several lines of…
It’s Not Actually Size That Determines How Deadly a Meteor Is
We have a lot to thank meteorites for. Had they not instigated several mass extinction events, including wiping out non-avian dinosaurs, we probably wouldn’t be here today. But some things…