Physicists Just Showed That Graphene Circuits Can Produce Clean, Limitless Power
Scientists have been able to draw power from the thermal motion of graphene at room temperature, potentially giving us a clean future source of limitless energy for small devices. The…
Why Do Mirrors Flip Things Horizontally But Not Vertically? Here’s The Physics
Mirror image is a tricky thing, but it’s pretty clear when you look at words in a reflection, that mirrors flip things horizontally rather than vertically. Or, at least it…
We Now Have Proof a Supernova Exploded Perilously Close to Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago
In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has had to run the gauntlet. Numerous catastrophes have imperilled the planet, from massive impacts, to volcanic conflagrations, to frigid episodes of snowball…
Snakes Have Been Found Slicing Open Live Toads And Devouring Their Organs One by One
Pity the toads that encounter Asian kukri snakes in Thailand. These snakes use enlarged, knifelike teeth in their upper jaws to slash and disembowel toad prey, plunging their heads into…
New Study Reveals Global Warming Is Affecting Night-Time Temperatures Differently
From the poles to the tropics, the oceans to our cities, we’ve mapped the fluctuations in temperature that are leading to a climate crisis. But strangely, little attention has been…
Melting Antarctic Snow Is Revealing The Preserved Remains of 800-Year-Old Penguins
As the world warms up, melting ice sheets across the globe are exposing everything from trapped methane gas to Viking remains. Now a new discovery has been made in the…
Archaeologists Just Unveiled a Fully Intact Mummy That’s Been Sealed For 2,500 Years
Archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins over recent weeks that were buried more than 2,500 years ago. Opening one of the ornately…
Scientists May Have Figured Out Where Unwanted Thoughts Are Hiding in The Brain
Worse than a song stuck in your head, negative thoughts that you can’t push away can be highly detrimental to your wellbeing. Sometimes, try as we might to suppress them,…
We’re Finally Getting Closer to Solving The Mystery of Glass’s Perplexing Strength
A windowpane or a tumbler might shatter quite easily, but solid glass is actually a lot more rigid and strong than it technically should be, if we consider its molecular…
A New Chemical ‘Tree of The Origins of Life’ Reveals Our Possible Molecular Evolution
One of the greatest mysteries in our Universe is right here on our own doorstep. No, closer – it’s in every fibre of our being. At least 3.7 billion years…
Physicists Have Successfully Connected Two Large Objects in Quantum Entanglement
We stride through our Universe with the confidence of a giant, giving little thought to the fact that reality bubbles with uncertainty. But physicists have just served up a sharp…
A Nuclear Breakthrough Could Help Us Make The Most Accurate Clock in Existence
The most accurate clocks in existence aren’t based on a quartz movement or a balance wheel, but the ticking of electrons in an atomic shell. The best of these atomic…
Breathtaking Discovery of Australian Cave Art Shows Nature And Humans in Harmony
It’s no surprise that Australia, home to the oldest continuous human culture on Earth, holds 100,000 rock art sites from prehistoric times. And we’re still finding more. An entirely new…
The First Person to Be Cured of HIV Has Passed Away From Cancer
The first person to be cured of HIV, Timothy Ray Brown – known as the “Berlin Patient” – has died from cancer, the International AIDS Society (IAS) announced Wednesday. Brown…
Greenland’s Ice Loss This Century on Track to Be Worst in 12,000 Years
Ice loss from Greenland’s massive ice sheet will cause sea levels to rise more during the 21st century than they have during any 100-year period in the last 12,000 years,…
Oldest Fossil Feather Ever Found Came From The Archaeopteryx Dinosaur, Study Confirms
The earliest fossil of a feather ever found has been stuck to the ground for roughly 150 million years. Ever since it was discovered, over a century and a half…