Five stories off the ground at Colorado State University, a highly unlikely garden grows under a long row of rooftop solar panels. It’s late October at 9 am, when the temperature is...
An experiment has finally revealed how it might feel to touch a quantum superfluid.Physicists dunked a special, finger-sized probe into an isotope of helium cooled to just a smidge over absolute zero,...
A deadly wave of heart attacks and strokes is headed for the US, borne by extreme heat waves spawned by climate change—and those deaths are most likely to occur in people who...
A new study reveals a previously undiscovered way that we can feel light touches: directly through our hair follicles.Before now, it was thought that only nerve endings in the skin and around...
This Halloween, when you grab a candy bar, pay attention to the wrapper. In the United States, a "nutrition facts" label has been required for all packaged foods since 1994, giving the...
Fine dust suspended in the atmosphere may have played a significant role in the extinction of dinosaurs after all.It's largely accepted that around 66 million years ago, a space rock larger than...
Turing’s diagonalization proof is a version of this game where the questions run through the infinite list of possible algorithms, repeatedly asking, “Can this algorithm solve the problem we’d like to prove...
After a bump, we can expect a bruise. But what if we find ourselves bruising without any noticeable cause? What might be behind it? Should we worry?Around 18 percent of adults report...
