Mikkelwilliam/Getty Images Is there anything more tedious than the endless drive to make every waking moment more productive? “If I can save ten seconds on a process that happens ten times per day, that’s a minute and 40 seconds saved...
Weight-loss drugs might make people less inclined to exerciseMe 3645 Studio/Getty Images Semaglutide – the drug in medications like Ozempic and Wegovy – causes mice to exercise less. The finding suggests these weight-loss medications may reduce people’s motivation to work...
How can we test whether gravity is quantum?AndreusK/Getty Images/iStockphoto Though physicists have competing ideas of what quantum gravity could be like, they have yet to definitively determine whether the gravity that we experience is quantum at all. A new proposal...
October 9, 20243 min readHurricane Milton Will Turn Helene’s Debris into Lethal Projectiles in FloridaFlorida is scrambling to clear storm-damaged areas before Hurricane Milton makes landfallBy Thomas Frank & E&E NewsDebris left by Hurricane Helene is piled up in the...
October 9, 20241 min read2024 Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Cracking the Secret Code of ProteinsThree scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how to predict the shape of proteins, crucial to understanding their function, and for creating entirely...
Our toothbrushes host huge numbers of viruses as well as bacteriaKathrin Ziegler/Getty Images Hundreds of viruses that infect bacteria have been found on toothbrushes and showerheads. This isn’t something to be worried about, though, because the viruses aren’t harmful to...
Hurricane Milton approaches FloridaCIRA Another one? Hurricane Milton, which is barrelling towards Florida’s west coast, is the fifth hurricane to form over the Atlantic in the past two weeks, arriving on the heels of devastating floods brought by Hurricane Helene....
The Nobel prize committee announce the chemistry prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in StockholmJONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images The 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work...
October 9, 20244 min readA Century-Old Question Is Still Revealing Answers in Fundamental MathMathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century agoBy Rachel CrowellA boy at a blackboard working...
The Swarm of Life by Shane GrossImage by Shane Gross BIRDS of a feather flock together – and so do these western toad tadpoles, who were snapped massing beneath lily pads in Cedar Lake on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, by photographer Shane...
