Physicists Have Developed a New Way to Levitate Objects Using Sound Only
A newly developed method of levitating and manipulating tiny objects using sound waves could represent a major step forward for the technology. Engineers in Japan have figured out how to…
The Oldest Confirmed ‘Message in a Bottle’ Contained Some Fascinating Questions
In 2018, a message in a bottle dating back to 1886 – 132 years ago – was found half-buried in the sand of a Western Australian beach. According to its…
Mice Could Be ‘Dreaming’ About Moving in The World Even Before They Open Their Eyes
Making sense of the world after birth, let alone navigating it, isn’t something we expect human infants to do. Baby mice, however, seem to have a leg up on us…
The Weird Case of a Man 3 Doctors Declared Dead Who Woke Up Just Before His Autopsy
Spanish prison authorities were baffled after a prisoner who was declared dead by three separate doctors woke up in the morgue – just hours before his own autopsy was set…
‘Cyborg Soil’ Unearths a Complex Web of Hidden Microbial Cities
Dig a teaspoon into your nearest clump of soil, and what you’ll emerge with will contain more microorganisms than there are people on Earth. We know this from lab studies…
Is Consciousness Bound by Quantum Physics? We’re Getting Closer to Finding Out
One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction…
This New Database of Over 350,000 Proteins Will Change The Research of Life Itself
Scientists on Thursday unveiled the most exhaustive database yet of the proteins that form the building blocks of life, in a breakthrough observers said would “fundamentally change biological research”. Every…
Life Expectancy in The US Has Totally Plummeted, And It’s Not All Due to COVID
Average life expectancy in the US plummeted by a year and a half in 2020 – the largest single-year decline since World War II, according to a new report from…
Last Meal of History’s Most Famous ‘Bog Body’ Hints at Human Sacrifice
The Tollund Man is one of the most famous ‘bog bodies’ ever discovered in northern Europe. Even though the 30- to 40-year-old human was buried in a bog more than…
Cockatoos in Australia Are Teaching Each Other How to Loot Trash Cans
Australia’s sulphur-crested cockatoos have rapidly turned into big city birds. In Sydney, these large, white, and noisy parrots (Cacatua galerita) have fully adapted to the urban environment, quenching their thirst…
Scientists Are Terrified That Earth’s Coral Reefs Are Doomed. Only We Can Save Them
The world’s coral reefs have reached a precipice, and only we can pull them back from the brink. According to a recent perspective, written on behalf of thousands of coral…
Ancient Roman Road Discovered Under The Waves of Venice
At the bottom of the Treporti Channel, meters beneath the waves of the Venetian Lagoon, a series of surprising ancient structures has just been uncovered. Aligned for a distance of…
The Ancient ‘Eye of Sauron’ Has Been Discovered, And It’s an Undersea Volcano
Looking like the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, an ancient undersea volcano was slowly revealed by multibeam sonar 3,100 meters (10,170 ft) below our vessel,…