Does written language speed up or slow down cultural change?
The written word is one of humanity’s most important information technologies. Without it, mathematical and scientific discoveries would be lost to history. But it can
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Scientists have identified a ‘protein signature’ in blood that could predict healthy aging
Two people born on the exact same day can age in totally different ways — one in relative health and the other with chronic disease.
Cosmic House of Mirrors
This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features galaxies in incredible detail that have been warped and multiplied like they’ve stepped into
How Does Life Unfold? A Landscape Metaphor Comes Into Its Own.
By the middle of the 20th century, it had begun to seem that biology was almost solved. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection
‘October is the ideal time to get vaccinated’: Flu season is kicking off early, experts say
Flu season is off to an early start in some parts of the U.S., data shows. In a typical year, U.S. flu activity starts building
Self-driving, solar-powered cars that talk to each other? What vehicles might look like in 10 years.
Imagine you’re road-tripping across the country 10 years from now. You spend a few minutes charging your electric vehicle and then set off — and
Cool chemistry trick allows new tattoos to ‘turn on and off’
The new tattoo ink is activated under UV light. (Image credit: Matter & Light, Bruns et al.) Researchers have developed a new type of tattoo
How the Grand Canyon could have lost 1 billion years of geologic history
The rise and fall of a continent-spanning cliff may help explain a mysterious 1-billion-year gap in Earth’s geologic history, a new study suggests.
Here’s a look at the Nobel Prizes for science
An icy window into the cosmos, a light switch for the brain and solving the mystery of mirror image molecules all took home the top
Bronze ring with Lighthouse of Alexandria engraving discovered at palace on submerged island in Egypt
A bronze signet ring depicting the Lighthouse of Alexandria, a wonder of the ancient world , has been discovered underwater in the Mediterranean off Alexandria
South Korean ‘robot dog’ became first to run a marathon on a single battery charge — now we know how
A four-legged robot completed a full marathon on a single battery charge, covering 26.2 miles (42.2 kilometers) on a hilly public-road course in South Korea
The Milky Way is one galaxy — but it used to be thousands, new simulations reveal
Long before it became the luminous spiral galaxy we call home, the Milky Way was a sprawling, chaotic swarm of thousands of small galaxies, new
Would you trust AI to calculate your true ‘biological age’?
Scientists have recently harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to build “aging clocks” that aim to estimate a person’s true biological age. While a person’s chronological age
The central Pacific Ocean just broke a temperature record. Experts say it might signal a new kind of El Niño.
The sea surface temperature in a key section of the central equatorial Pacific Ocean has now surpassed all previous temperatures on record for this region