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Instead of digging for metals, we could extract them from salty, subterranean water.
A study reports that people think those with similar personality traits look alike and vice versa.
Reality is more distorted than we think.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
The famous social robot is about to start rolling off the assembly line.
Hindsight is 20/20, particularly when you have had 20 years to think about what happened.
Is there actually anything deserving of the term AI?
These animals to grow scalpel-sharp and precisely shaped tools that are resistant to breaking.
Whenever the climate cooled, our hominin ancestors would set up shop in the Arabian Peninsula and vanish again when the planet warmed up.
Once limited in range, mass hysteria can now spread across the globe in an instant.
The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.
Once merely a theoretical curiosity, they might be the key to understanding so much more. Out of all of the known particles — both fundamental and composite — there are a whole slew of properties […]
After 100 million nights of people asking, "What are those twinkly lights?" it is pretty remarkable that we happen to live in one of the first generations that actually knows the answer.
Yet another ocean monster has been discovered.
Do right and wrong depend on culture, or does morality transcend place and time?
Whatever’s lurking out there, it isn’t all, or even mostly, normal matter. When it comes to the Universe, it’s only natural to wonder what, exactly, it is that makes everything up. […]
Scientists are solving the problem of costly energy storage.
This short story is a fictional account of two very real people — Anaximander and Anaximenes, two ancient Greeks who tried to make sense of the universe.
Technology designed to listen for atomic bombs can also hear tornadoes.
China's dominance of the rare earth metal industry is part of its overall geopolitical strategy.