Designing Beasts Made of Corner Store Hardware
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests are wind-powered “walking skeletons” crafted from basic materials like tape and zip ties. With innovations…
Geometry and Topology Go Hand In Hand
The Inscribed Square Problem, posed by Otto Toeplitz in 1911, asks whether every closed continuous loop contains four…
Hearing What You Can See
Synesthesia, where senses blend to create unique experiences like “tasting” words or “seeing” music, affects about 1 in…
A Major Atlantic Ocean Current Is At Risk of Collapsing. Here’s How We Can Save It.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a critical ocean current that regulates global weather patterns, particularly temperature…
Research Does Not Yield Instant Results—It Takes Time
Groundbreaking medical advancements, like GLP-1 drugs derived from lizard venom, highlight the importance of pursuing “useless” knowledge. What…
Study Shows Gene Expression Differences Drive Human Brain Complexity
At a Glance Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have uncovered new insights into what makes…
Saving the Arctic
Arctic warming is happening nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet, accelerating the loss of…
Do Black Holes Get “Full?”
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal quasars powered by black holes growing far faster than previously…
How to Study a Three-Century-Old Earthquake
Scientists pinpointed the exact date of a massive 1700 earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone by analyzing Japan’s…
What an Electron Truly Looks Like
While traditionally visualized as a tiny ball, quantum mechanics describes electrons as fuzzy wave functions, with properties like…