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Proving the Physics Behind Warp Drives

Star Trek may have introduced the masses to the concept of a warp drive, but early references to this mode of travel date back to the 1930s in Jack Williamson’s science fiction novel, The Cometeers…. 더 읽어보기 >>

These crows are smarter than you think. Let them count the ways!

Carrion crows, a notably brainy bird native to Europe, recently demonstrated their laudable intellectual capabilities in yet another way. While these crows have previously shown the ability to… 더 읽어보기 >>

Three favorites from TIME Magazine’s “Best Innovations of 2023”

 
Every year for more than twenty years, TIME editors compile a list of the most impactful ideas and products. This year, the editors focused on categories such as AI, accessibility, robotics,… 더 읽어보기 >>

The scary combination of “rapid intensification” and “slower decay” in hurricanes

The rapid intensification and slower decay in recent hurricanes provide a terrible “one-two” punch, increasing storm surges and wind speeds at landfall while expanding the total area affected by the… 더 읽어보기 >>

Treating Alzheimer’s disease with lights and sounds

A Boston-based startup developed a non-invasive treatment for Alzheimer’s disease that slowed Alzheimer’s disease patients’ cognitive delay by 83% and functional decline by 84% after just six… 더 읽어보기 >>

Hottest month in over 120,000 years: Hot nights make it even more miserable.

July 2023 is the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. And we still have a few days to go before we flip the calendar to August.
According to Scientific American, “Because July is… 더 읽어보기 >>

NASA’s DART mission successfully slams asteroid 3

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), is a NASA space mission designed to test the planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). Last week, it crashed into Dimorphos, a small asteroid over… 더 읽어보기 >>

Pumpkin toadlets can’t jump 3

What is tiny, bright orange, and really bad at jumping? The answer is a small amphibian found in the mountainous forests of Brazil, aptly called pumpkin toadlets. These tiny frogs are barely a… 더 읽어보기 >>

Capturing the image of this black hole required an Earth-sized telescope

The Milky Way is a hazy, dare I say milky, band of light seen in the night sky. In 1610, Galileo Galilei used his telescope to show the light emanated from individual stars. In 1920, scientists first… 더 읽어보기 >>

1960s US Army project unearths Greenland ice sheet’s fragility

A decades-old nuclear research project uncovers proof that the Greenland ice sheet has melted before.
During the 1960s, a US Army project called “Project Iceworm” set out to determine if… 더 읽어보기 >>

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