By Nick Lavars – Scientists are calling for the global population to move towards a more plant-based diet (Credit: stockasso/Depositphotos). It’s no secret that the course we’re on with food production and consumption is in need of serious correcting, but a major …
By Ben Coxworth – The NuBike road bike prototype – other models are in the works (Credit: Rodger Parker). Probably ever since bicycles were first invented, people have been looking for alternatives to the traditional approach of pedaling in circles. Los Angeles-based …
By Rich Haridy – Low tide at blue hour reveals a muddy riverbed of fishbone shaped streams in the middle of a small, but unique part of the salt marsh located at the end of the Betanzos Estuary, near A Coruña in …
By Michael Irving – An artist’s rendering of the quasar J043947.08+163415.7, the brightest known quasar with the luminosity of 600 trillion Suns (Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser). From our point of view here on Earth, the brightest object in the sky is …
In 2018, a remote Alaskan community’s infrastructure was hit by a malware attack which forced it offline. It was only then they realized how much they depended on computers. By Chris Baraniuk – Mountain and lake in Mat-Su Borough – p06xjnns. They still …
Eight-dimensional octonions may hold the clues to solve fundamental mysteries. By Paul Ratner – Physicists discover complex numbers called octonions that work in 8 dimensions. The numbers have been found linked to fundamental forces of reality. Understanding octonions can lead to a new …
Aww. By Evan Fleischer – Researchers appear to have found a neural basis for “cute aggression.” Cute aggression is what happens when you say something like, ‘It’s so cute I want to squeeze the stuffings out of it!’ But it’s also a complex …
Image Source. Cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin, continues to rise in popularity despite its value’s recent volatility; and if you are looking to use bitcoin to pay for things, you have to take due diligence in knowing how to do it, where you can spend, …
In the early days of life on Earth, protecting the warmth-trapping atmosphere from the Sun’s fierce solar winds was critical. By Yasmin Tayag – For life to take root on a planet, organisms need little more than a rocky surface, liquid water, and …
The magnetic field is changing like never before, and scientists aren’t sure what to do. By Peter Hess – The Earth’s magnetic field protects us from the most harmful portions of the sun’s radiation. The Earth’s magnetic field has always been in flux, …
