Why it’s wise to wait two weeks after your shot
The FDA-authorized Covid vaccines are, in some ways, like Spiderman. "When Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider, he's not able to climb walls right away," said Dr. Vince...
Even NASA’s helicopter on Mars has to wait for software updates
You know when you tap an app on your phone and instead of opening, it starts downloading an update? That's kind of what's happening with NASA's helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity....
60 years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space
On April 12, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin sat alone in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, hoping to become the first person to travel into space. "Poyekhali!" Gagarin said as liftoff began,...
Did we just discover new physics? These theoretical physicists don’t think so
When the results of an experiment don’t match predictions made by the best theory of the day, something is off.Fifteen years ago, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered something perplexing....
Can AI be hypnotized?
It’s no longer considered science fiction fodder to imagine a human-level machine intelligence in our lifetimes. Year after year we see the status quo in AI research shattered as yesterday’s...
Scientists are trying to redefine how we measure time – here’s why
Everyone needs to know the time. Ever since the 17th century Dutch inventor Christiaan Huygens made the first pendulum clock, people have been thinking of good reasons to measure time...
What’s solar geoengineering… and why is it controversial?
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine tackles a controversial question: Is solar geoengineering – an approach designed to cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight...
What if you’re living in a simulation, but there’s no computer?
Swedish Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument says we might be living in a computer-generated reality. Maybe he’s right. There currently exists no known method by which we could investigate the...
Yes, Godzilla could take Kong in a fight — we have science to prove it
The 2021 film “Godzilla vs. Kong” pits the two most iconic movie monsters of all time against each other. And fans are now picking sides.Even the most fantastical creatures have...
Here’s what happens when a beam of subatomic particles hits you in the face
What would happen if you stuck your body inside a particle accelerator? The scenario seems like the start of a bad Marvel comic, but it happens to shed light on...
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