A Summer Camp Covid-19 Outbreak Offers Back-to-School Lessons
Much more settled is that most kids who contract Covid-19 don’t get that sick. Data from the CDC report about symptoms among... Read More
Frog Eats Beetle. Beetle Crawls Through Guts to Escape
The nice thing about being a frog is that you don’t have to chew your food—just gulp, and down the hatch. The... Read More
Archaeologists Have Found the Source of Stonehenge’s Boulders
The huge slabs of stone that make up the most iconic structures at Stonehenge came from about 25km away, according to chemical... Read More
Mad Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Microbes
This is the strange saga of how scientists went to some of the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean, dug 250 feet... Read More
The Sly Psychology Behind Magicians’ Card Tricks
Pick a card, any card. It’s a staple of traditional magic tricks. But if you choose the three of diamonds, chances are... Read More
Looking for Gravitons? Check for the ‘Buzz’
Many physicists assume that gravitons exist, but few think that we will ever see them. These hypothetical elementary particles are a cornerstone... Read More
How Quickly Can Atoms Slip, Ghostlike, Through Barriers?
In 1927, while trying to understand how atoms bind to form molecules, the German physicist Friedrich Hund discovered one of the most... Read More
China’s First Mars Rover Launch Could Make History
For the last 20 years, the only sign of activity on Mars was a succession of NASA-built rovers slowly rolling across the... Read More
The Terrible Consequences of Australia’s Uber-Bushfires
Australia’s apocalyptic bushfires earlier this year weren’t just unprecedented in their scale and ferocity—they weren’t even supposed to be possible yet. Over... Read More
Vantablack? Meh. Meet the Ultra-Black Vantafish
Incredibly, there wasn’t one common ancestor of these 16 Vantafish species—or at least the 16 Osborn and Davis have discovered so far—that... Read More