Science

This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the 2018 eruption of the Kīlauea volcano drove a rare, massive summertime phytoplankton bloom, the largest ever recorded […]

The fact that humans walk on two legs is likely the reason we have developed our rhythmic, musical, and linguistic abilities, suggests new research by physician and researcher Matz Larsson.This article is brought to you […]

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report that Earth’s first crust probably had chemical features similar to today’s continental crust. And engineers advanced quantum […]

The original tall poppies bloomed in the garden of Tarquin the Proud, last king of Rome. To communicate that his enemies should be defeated by killing their leaders, he is said to have decapitated the […]

In a novel use of statistics, researchers estimate the number of unattributed paintings, known as “sleepers,” by the famous 20th-century Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani to be at between 20 and 120.This article is brought to […]

One of the strangest facts in computer science is that it’s really hard to generate true random numbers. For a computer, anyway. I can do it just fine: 173, 401, 530. That’s right off the […]

In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. The board’s grievances included claims of inadequate copyediting, misuse of artificial intelligence (AI), […]

In 2023, an academic journal, the Annals of Operations Research, retracted an entire special issue because the peer review process for it was compromised.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

This week, ALMA researchers reported the discovery of oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. Geologists believe unusual structures in rock in the desert regions of Namibia, Oman and Saudia Arabia may be evidence of […]

In a first-of-its-kind study published in the journal PLOS ONE, an international team of researchers led by scholars from New York University Shanghai and Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland has explored the potential of […]