How Napping Can Do More Harm Than Good
You’re in the middle of the afternoon, eyelids heavy, focus slipping. You close your eyes for half an hour and wake up ...
NASA's Most Controversial Rock
In the mid-1990s, a meteorite with the unmemorable name ALH84001 became the most famous rock in the world. Because one team ...
Is a New Atomic Anomaly Evidence for a 'Dark Force'?
In 2020, a group of MIT researchers detected an anomaly in the nuclei of ytterbium atoms. They said that the nuclei’s strange ...
Zero-Risk, Zero Sense: Unscientific Food, Drug Policies Are Nothing New
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. does with U.S. food-and-drug policies, the scientific community is right to insist that the ...
No, Space Doesn’t Kill You Like That
Hollywood (and other fictional media) loves to show people dying in outer space. And it has several go-to causes of death, on ...
The Most Common Way to Get Head Lice
For as long as humans have had lice, we’ve fought hard to get rid of them. Nit combs, the fine-tooth brushes used to remove ...
Ted Simon
While waiting to see what Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. does with U.S. food-and-drug policies, the scientific community is right to insist that ...
Lyle Burgoon
While waiting to see what Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. does with U.S. food-and-drug policies, the scientific community is right to insist that ...
Talar Moukhtarian
You’re in the middle of the afternoon, eyelids heavy, focus slipping. You close your eyes for half an hour and wake up feeling recharged. But later that night, you’re ...