Science

James Webb telescope pinpoints the most distant ‘fast radio burst’ ever seen, more than 10 billion light-years away

Astronomers have detected the most distant burst of radio signals ever seen: an explosion that's emitting waves of energy from more than 10 billion light-years away.The event, named FRB...

THE GEARBOX: The Revolutionary Power Expander That Helped Move Mankind Forward

By Gracus Bloom | Industrial Technology News There is a wonderfully misleading phrase sometimes used to describe a gearbox:...

Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests

The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a...

Star Metal: When Ancient People Worked Metal From the Stars

By Gracus Bloom | Historical Science & Archaeology Long before modern metallurgy gave humanity steel mills, electric furnaces and...

To Blend or Not to Blend? Four Vegetables Worth Eating Whole

Health News | Nutrition, food preparation and what really happens inside your blender The blender debate: Are we missing...

From Faraday’s Spinning Disc to Home Standby Power: The Remarkable History of the Generator

The modern generator is one of those machines that most people notice only when it stops working—or when the utility power goes out and...

‘Oddly shaped rock’ unearthed in California turns out to be ‘immaculate’ mastodon molar

An exceptionally well-preserved fossilized molar belonging to an adult Pacific mastodon has surfaced in a nature preserve near San Francisco.Upon first glance, the ancient...

Water Wars: Hydrogen, Kangen, Artesian, Spring and Mineral Water — Which One Is Really Better?

Walk into a grocery store, health-food shop or fitness center today and plain water suddenly seems almost old-fashioned. There is hydrogen water, alkaline water,...

​​If AI thinks it’s conscious, it’s more likely to believe in vampires, karma and ghosts, new study shows. What does it mean for how...

Removing safety guardrails that stop artificial intelligence (AI) from claiming that it's conscious also makes it more prone to express belief in vampires, karma...

4 Essential Oils That May Help With DHT-Related Hair Thinning

Rosemary, peppermint, lavender and cedarwood are attracting attention as natural scalp-care ingredients—but what does the science actually say? Hair thinning is one of those health...

Mathematicians made the world’s fairest dice — they’re 60-sided and can never end in a tie

Over dinner at a gaming convention around 2010, board game designer James Ernest turned to his friend Eric Harshbarger and asked a question: Could...