Elevators have a strange way of messing with your sense of gravity. The moment an elevator lurches upward, you feel…
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This month could be the best time to spot the northern lights for nearly a decade, as the combination of…
Priestesses of a mysterious cult in ancient Greece and Rome may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic…
Pain is something most people experience after an injury, whether from a sprained ankle, surgery or car accident. Normally pain…
Steve Fleming’s research is definitely “meta” — a Greek prefix indicating self-reference. He’s a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London…
quick factsWhat it is: HD 61005, a sun-like star nicknamed the “Moth”Where it is: About 117 light-years away in the…
Milestone: Black hole radiation theorizedDate: March 1, 1974Where: Cambridge, EnglandWho: Stephen HawkingIn 1974, a brilliant 32-year-old physicist published a not-quite-two-page…
March is a great month to step outside and look up. As winter gives way to spring, the night sky…
Science news this week was filled with stunning space discoveries, with the largest map of the chaotic gas clouds at…
In 1774, British physician-scientist Charles Blagden received an unusual invitation from a fellow physician: to spend time in a small…