Which ‘Star Trek’ Captain am I?
Before you set a course for the final frontier, find out which legendary ‘Star Trek’ captain’s leadership style aligns with your own.
Science
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Brain waves could help paralyzed patients move again
People with spinal cord injuries often lose movement even though their brains still send the right signals. Researchers tested whether EEG brain scans could capture those signals and reroute them to spinal stimulators. The system can detect when a patient…
Can we use bees as a model of intelligent alien life to develop interstellar communication?
We frequently question whether we are alone in the universe.
Saturday Citations: A weird, extinct life form; cholesterol hacking; interspecies prosociality of whales
It’s Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on the idea that memories could arise from random fluctuations in entropy rather than reflecting the actual past of the universe—news you can…
January’s full Wolf Moon leaps past the Eiffel Tower in stunning photo of Paris skyline
The Wolf Moon is named for the hungry predators that sometimes can be heard howling in the winter month.
Radicalism, extremism, fundamentalism: International study finds numerous commonalities—and certain differences
From a social sciences perspective, people with radical, extremist, or fundamentalist attitudes are similar in some respects: In most cases, they are younger and less educated men who feel that they are not taken seriously enough. This is one of…
Earthquake sensors can track space junk that crashes back to Earth
Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous objects in near real time.
New catalyst makes plastic upcycling 10x more efficient than platinum
Scientists are finding new ways to replace expensive, scarce platinum catalysts with something far more abundant: tungsten carbide. By carefully controlling how tungsten carbide’s atoms are arranged at extremely high temperatures, researchers discovered a specific form that can rival platinum…
Astronomers just revealed a stunning new view of the Milky Way in radio colors
A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to map the galaxy’s hidden structures. The image is sharper, deeper, and wider than anything previously released, uncovering both star-forming regions…
Astronomers found a black hole growing way too fast
Astronomers have spotted a rare, rule-breaking quasar in the early Universe that appears to be growing its central black hole at an astonishing pace. Observations show the black hole is devouring matter far faster than theory says it should—about 13…