Tag: science
They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win...
The Allied soldiers who weren’t killed limped back from the defeat. It was clear now, they needed to be able to creep up...
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision
Brian Bussard has 25 tiny chips in his brain. They were installed in February 2022 as part of a study testing a wireless...
The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton
“How are matter and energy distributed?” asked Peter Schweitzer, a theoretical physicist at the University of Connecticut. “We don’t know.”Schweitzer has spent most...
Toronto Wants to Manage Storms and Floods—With a Rain Tax
This story originally appeared on Canadaâs National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A plan to charge Toronto homeowners and businesses...
Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways
As a recent example of what may ensue, Pitesky points to the repeated African swine fever outbreaks across various Asian countries in the...
The Honeybees Versus the Murder Hornets
Teams of volunteers now hunt Asian hornets landing on British soil, but detection is only the tip of the iceberg, says Elmes. The...
A Popular Alien-Hunting Technique Is Increasingly in Doubt
The third factor is the probability of a lifeless planet producing the observed signal—an equally serious challenge, researchers now realize, that’s tangled up...
