A man in a lab coat bends under a dim light, his strained eyes riveted onto a microscope. He’s powered only by caffeine and anticipation.
This solitary scientist will stay on task until he unveils the truth about the cause of the dangerous disease quickly spreading through his vulnerable city. Time is short, the stakes are high, and only...
Pointing out that someone else is wrong is a part of life. And journalists need to do this all the time – their job includes helping sort what’s true from what’s not. But what if people just don’t like hearing corrections?
Our new research, published in the journal Communication Research[1], suggests that’s the case. In two...
China achieved a historic feat by bringing back the first-ever sample from the lunar far side[1] in June 2024. It’s moon lander, Chang'e 6[2], used a robotic scoop and drill to collect approximately 5 pounds (2 kilograms) of rocks and soil. These samples came back to Earth on June 25, 2024.
Chang'e 6 built off the accomplishments of two...
Elon Musk recently pronounced[1] that the next Neuralink project will be a “Blindsight” cortical implant to restore vision: “Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately may exceed normal human vision.”
Unfortunately, this claim rests on the fallacy that neurons in the brain are like pixels on a screen...