Lab imitations of the unobservable cosmos can be genuinely insightful
Despite the obvious caveats, physicists are right to use fluids and other physical analogues to…
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Migrating bats use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate in the dark
Soprano pipistrelles migrate long distancesWildchromes/Alamy Migratory bats use a magnetic sense to navigate long distances, …
This Machine Makes You Hallucinate | WIRED
Last summer, in various cities in the UK, more than 40,000 people visited the Dreamachine,…
What Is Paxlovid Rebound, and How Common Is It?
Editor’s Note (5/26/23): The Food and Drug Administration has formally approved the antiviral Paxlovid as…
Plankton Generate a Cloudy Shield over the Antarctic
After sunlight completes its eight-minute journey to Earth, white surfaces such as clouds send much…
Multiple sclerosis: Blood test can identify MS in some people years before symptoms start
In multiple sclerosis, autoantibodies mistakenly attack nerve cellsKateryna Kon/Science Photo Library A distinct group of…
Babies can identify people’s faces from just 4 months old
Babies produce a brain signal that suggests they can identify faces at 4 months old,…
3D-printed material glows green under pressure or friction
The material glows green under forceSongcheng Peng, Ping Xia, Ting Wang et al. A 3D-printed…
The Quest to Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing
Hotta found, to his surprise, that a simple sequence of events could, in fact, induce…
How listening to audiobooks may be making us more gullible
LIKE many people over the past few years, I have found myself transitioning to audiobooks…