Science

They said that dead men tell no tales, but that idiom soon may change. In another moment of freaky sci-fi becoming reality, Microsoft received a patent for a new digital process of immortalizing the dead. This system takes someone’s social data they left behind (including videos, text, and electronic messages), analyzes it, and renders it...

People who menstruate are intimately familiar with the periodic bleeding that begins in adolescence and continues for what feels like all of eternity. Many of us spend most of our adult lives on hormonal contraceptives, whether for preventing unwanted pregnancy or for a host of other reasons, like easing severe premenstrual symptoms and improving acne....

If the magnitude of climate change is hard for you to imagine, picture a giant ice cube, to scale, sitting next to an image of New York City. A startling image, right? To get a sense of how big that is, imagine this ice cube is a 6-mile block. This analogy represents the amount of...

Right now, we’re being asked to wear a mask (or two) when we aren’t able to stay six feet away from other people in public. It’s for everyone’s health, and for the idea that someday – hopefully sooner than later – we’re going to be able to return to a life we vaguely remember. Now,...

For a brief explainer on time crystals, check out this article – and once you’ve got an idea of what we’re dealing with, all of this is going to seem much more exciting. tl;dr for those of you too lazy to click over (you are my people), time crystals are a recently discovered 4th state...

If you haven’t heard about time crystals, get ready to be wowed by physics – which is not a phrase I utter every day. The main reason this discovery is so exciting is that they point to a whole new world of “non-equilibrium” phases that scientists have never even had the opportunity to study in...

There’s always pushback when we talk about all of the jobs that computers and robots can and will likely be qualified to do in the near future. This is because we don’t want to think about the people who used to do those jobs no longer have a paycheck and stability, right? Well, this Redditor says...

Hummingbirds are like the fairy-spirit-dragon-unicorns of the bird world. When considering the very beautiful and very powerful hummingbird it’s easy to be like, maybe half bug, yeah? As in, how do they do that? With the flapping? What sort of superpower mutant gene exists in nature that gave them the ability to beat their wings...