WHERE SCIENCE MEETS SCIENCE FICTION
Machine learning and neural nets have been adapted to everything from writing fortune cookie messages to developing new drugs, but...
On a normal day at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, if someone tells you that they saw the former president standing, talking,...
There was an explosion at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida last week — but it was only water, and it wasn't...
There's something about the perfect right angles of rectangles that evokes human-ness. Our rooms, our phone screens, and even our...
The naming of constellations is serious business. The ones you're probably most familiar with like the Big Dipper, Sagittarius, and...
The number of genuine VR gaming 'hits' is surprisingly short, but Owlchemy Games' Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives is up there,...
If there's one thing drug companies hate more than unforeseen side effects, it's sharing proprietary information about their drugs....
There is a science to naming newly discovered creatures and organisms, but sometimes it's just easier for scientists to call a thing...
When you're watching an Earth-sized mass hurtle into a supermassive black hole a billion light-years away, it's easy to forget...
They're not exactly grabbing for three-eyed alien toys at Pizza Planet, but engineers at NASA are using the same arcade game from...
There was a time when physics experiments could be carried out with two weighted balls and a tower in Pisa (although Galileo's famous...
For a space agency that just experienced one of the biggest spacecraft failures in recent memory, Russia's Roscosmos is playing it...
The Tyrannosaurus rex is generally respected as an apex predator and king of the dinosaurs – but it's those tiny arms that most...
Quick, what's the most massive living organism on the planet? It's not the blue whale, or the African elephant. It's not even one of...
VR has been hailed as a lot of things: the next major video game platform, a new social networking platform, and even a rival to...
Using the VIMOS instrument (VIsible Multi-Object Spectrograph) on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, an international team of...
Artificial intelligence is getting better at driving cars and recognizing photos, but one of the things AI still struggles with is...
If someone asked you to draw an electron, what shape would your masterpiece take? Physicists recently used lasers in an experiment to...
You might have heard of the 'Devil's symphony,' the strange, unearthly combination of squeals, shrieks, and thunderous cracks caused...
