Magnets used to be rigid — not anymore.
Lab-grown meat market could be worth $85 billion by 2030
Fake meat is not just a fad.
Fossil Friday: researchers discover new, ancient relative of the tilapia
Do you think it was tasty, too?
Mosquitoes hunt first by smell, then by eyesight
They track the CO2 you breathe out.
Elon Musk says ‘we’ could land on the moon in “less than two years”
Who’s ‘we’ though?
Historian unearths more solid evidence of the Armenian Genocide
Probably the largest genocide you probably haven’t heard about.
Radiation in the Marshall Islands, where the U.S. tested nuclear weapons, is higher than in Chernobyl
During the Cold War the United States dropped nearly 70 nuclear bombs on some tiny islands in the middle of the Pacific.
Natural compound found in grape skins, berries, and red wine, could help Mars explorers stay fit
It doesn’t necessarily have to be red wine…
People don’t really care about rigged games — as long as they win
The rich get richer — but they think the game is fair.
Bee sting vaccine successfully passes human trials in Australia
If you’re allergic to bee venom, this vaccine is for you.
Elon Musk wants to test a device on humans that can wire your brain to the internet starting from 2020
In the future, installing Elon Musk brain-computer interface could be as easy laser eye surgery.
Analysis of 19 million cats shows how our pets’ weight evolves throughout their lifetimes
“As humans, we know we need to strive to maintain a healthy weight, but for cats, there has not been a clear definition of what that is. We simply didn’t have the data,” the authors say.
Vikings cut down all of Iceland’s forests — the country is planting them anew
Since 2015, Iceland has planted around 1,000 hectares of forest (between three and four million trees).
HIV sequencing from archived tissue suggests the virus crossed to humans in early 1900s
Scientists are getting closer to revealing the timeline of HIV evolution.
New studies explain why many more women than men are affected by Alzheimer’s
There are sex differences that may make women more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s.
Women are just as aroused by pornography as men, largest study of its kind shows
Myth: busted.
Stonehenge might have a secret ingredient: lard
The 5,000-year-old structures have baffled historians for centuries. However, it looks like one piece of the puzzle might have come together.
Are dinosaur fossils minerals? The legal answer to that is surprisingly important
Every once in a while, a scientific matter will spill into the courtroom — this is the case with the “dueling dinosaurs” fossil.
Scientists discover new eagle-nosed, shovel-chinned dinosaur
A weird-looking new duck-billed dinosaur was found in Texas.
Human outposts on Mars could be sheltered by a thin layer of ‘frozen smoke’
Scientists envision using a very thin material to build a huge greenhouse on Mars.
