As the animations below dramatically illustrate, this was indeed a boom year for snow in the western United States. This is especially true for water-depleted California, as well as the…
Animal personalities, A few years ago, Christian Rutz began to wonder if he was giving his ravens enough trust. Rutz, a biologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland,…
This article was originally published on March 8, 2020. Who are they the greatest scientists of all time? Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, or other big names probably come to mind—and…
This article was originally published on July 12, 2022. Albert Einstein is considered by many to be one of the the greatest scientists of all time. Mostly known for his…
Although it has proved to be a dream tool for many industries, ChatGPT is quickly becoming a nightmare for academia. As of January 2023 four individual research papers cite the…
23,000-year-old teeth fill ice age gap , For many years, the Malalmuerzo (“bad lunch”) cave near Granada, Spain, located near rocky farmland, was open to the public. Locals ducked under…
One of the great scientific projects of our time is the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI—the search for evidence of technologically advanced civilizations elsewhere in the galaxy. The current…
We owe our life to 3 billion year old stromatolite fossils , What is the most impressive fossil you have seen? For most people—those who aren’t paleontologists—the answer is likely…
Atoms tap all the time! But to understand why we must first decide what we mean by the word “touch.” Our normal concept of touch is based on the macroscopic…
In the spring of 1993, Is Bill Nye, the scientist, really a scientist? a 30-minute program called Bill Nye, the learned man first aired on KCTS-TV, the Seattle-based PBS affiliate.…