Sciences

Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Lang...

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing ar...

The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Suba...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways th...

Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades ...

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a numbe...

The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria ...

Why Computer Scientists Consult Oracles

Hypothetical devices that can quickly and accurately answer questions have becom...

Importance of RNA modifications in fungal infection res...

An often-overlooked mechanism of gene regulation may be involved in the failure ...

Odds point to a shift in the gender appeal of sports be...

Sports betting has historically been considered an overwhelmingly male pursuit—b...

Neutron star 'mountains' would cause ripples in space-time

Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than l...

Meta allowed pornographic ads that break its content mo...

Last year, Meta allowed thousands of paid ads containing sexually explicit image...

A supermassive black hole is sending out a mysterious p...

Regular pulses of X-ray radiation emanating from a supermassive black hole could...

Maybe Good Things Will Happen – II

Ed. note: Yes, certainly, parts of last year were pretty bad, yes, we noticed th...

By the wind sailors

This post first appeared in March 2023. I can’t wait to go to the beach again. W...

Oh Wow: An Exercise in Certainty

Key:* = Pretty darn sure** = Scientists are making some educated guesses here Hu...

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All original art by the author. This post originally appeared September 13, 2024

Science Metaphors (cont.): Touchstone

Last Friday, Sarah used “touchstone” as a metaphor. I think she uses the metapho...

Tech predictions made 15 years ago – how many stand up?

We made this graphical timeline back in 2009 for our book Information is Beautif...

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