Social media is not to blame for the decline of face-to-face communication
It’s a familiar and seemingly logical argument: social media is making us less social. We are addicted to our phones at the expense of going out into the real world…
Birds stop during migration to avoid disease or infection
When flying thousands of miles, birds often stop to refuel with food and energy. New research suggests that birds that make these trips twice a year may be doing more…
A secret 30-foot chamber in the Great Pyramid has been discovered
For more than 4,300 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has been the tallest man-made structure on the ground. Standing 481 feetThe Great Pyramid lost its title as the tallest…
How similar are insect brains to human brains?
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, while the rest of us were watching TV and baking banana bread, two Johns Hopkins University researchers took their minds off the…
Is photographic memory real?
You may have heard stories about someone who has a photographic memory. You may have even thought that you or someone you know might have one. But is photographic memory…
How did dinosaurs have sex?
How did dinosaurs have sex? Sounds like the start of a risky prank. In the early years of paleontology it would have been considered beneath the dignity of the field…
Were woolly mammoths always woolly?
The first woolly mammoths were warm, but the last woolly mammoths were warmer. In fact, published article in Current Biology states that the woolly mammoths’ best-known traits, including their fluffy…
People love spinning—and researchers want to know why
If you’ve regularly ignored the playground swings, swings and slides – and headed straight for the merry-go-round instead – you’re probably familiar with the intoxicating giddy feeling that accompanies a…
There are more than 85,000 volcanoes on Venus
There are more than 85,000 volcanoes on Venus , our closest planetary neighbor in the Solar System, has long remained shrouded in a cloud of mystery—literally. The planet sits in…
How accurate are lie detectors and should we use them?
In Liu Sixin’s famous science fiction series The three-body problem, human beings make their first contact with the Trisolarans, an alien civilization incapable of deception or lying because they broadcast…