4.1-Magnitude Earthquake Near Knoxville, Tennessee Felt in Several StatesThe quake struck near Greenback, which is about 30 miles southwest of Knoxville, at 9:04 a.m.
Scientists Discover How Some Flowers Mimic the Smell of DeathThe ancient, underlying gene is related to bad breath in humans.
Climate Change Intensified Deadly April Rainfall in South and Midwest: ScientistsAnalysis found climate change made the deadly storms 40% more likely compared to the probability of such events in the pre-industrial age.
May’s Flower Moon Will Soon Enrich the Sky, Symbolizing Spring BloomsLearn about May’s upcoming full moon, the Flower Moon of 2025, and find out what makes it worth watching.
Want Climate Solutions in Indigenous Territories? Better Get Consent.For three years in a row, Indigenous leaders have called for an end to carbon markets, carbon offsets, and geoengineering technologies.
Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cellsA paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury. The Japanese man was one of four individuals in a first-of-its-kind trial that used reprogrammed stem cells to treat people who are fully paralysed.
Some people think AI writing has a tell — the em dash. Writers disagree.Suspicious that an awkward email or stilted college essay may have been written by artificial intelligence? Some people think there’s a surefire way to tell — the em dash. Writers, journalists and other grammar nerds — we’re sorry.
The Hubble Tension Is Becoming a Hubble CrisisOver the past decade, two very different ways of calculating the rate at which the universe is expanding have come to be at odds, a disagreement dubbed the Hubble tension, after 20th-century astronomer Edwin Hubble.
Conscious ‘Alien Minds’ Could Be Living Among Us—And We Don’t Even Know It, Scientist SaysWhat is intelligence? We can all agree that humans are intelligent and many of us would likely extend that definition to the most mentally adept creatures of the animal kingdom—from dolphins to corvids.
Could We Store Our Data in DNA?A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes. That’s a lot—but, according to one estimate, humanity will produce a hundred and eighty zettabytes of digital data this year.
Quantum mechanics might have the solution to joystick driftThe Nintendo Switch may be remembered as much for repopularizing portable gaming as it will for a hardware issue that affected millions of gamers: joystick drift.
‘Mind blowing’: quantum computer untangles the mathematics of knotsYou have full access to this article via your institution. Are quantum computers worth the billions that are being invested in them? The answer is probably many years away.
AI Is Actually a Form of ‘Alien Intelligence,’ Harvard Professor Claims—And It Will Surpass HumanityThe human brain is a marvel of neurons firing electrical impulses through complex networks of neural pathways. It can also be notoriously slow when it comes to figuring out new solutions for complicated tasks like designing new computer chips.
Beanbag GeneticsToday a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance
12,000 Years Later, Dire Wolves Are BackF rom certain angles, the white canids on the video call, chewing on branches in the grass, look like Samoyeds: huge, white, fluffy faces and big black noses.