September 26, 20245 min readMilgram’s Infamous Shock Studies Still Hold Lessons for Confronting AuthoritarianismWhy ordinary people will follow orders to the point of hurting others remains a critical question for scientists—though some answers have emergedBy Laura Niemi, Edouard Machery &...
A camellia farm in Jiangxi province, ChinaWan Xiang/Xinhua/Alamy Replacing some existing vegetable oil crops with camellia plants could boost cooking oil production while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, water use and pesticide use, according to a modelling study. That is because...
Hairy situation Yes, when someone pulls your hair – if you have enough hair that someone can pull it – it hurts. But the truth of why that is, and some of the how much and some of the how,...
Maths phobia is older than you might think. A hundred years ago, German physicist Felix Auerbach, lamenting the phenomenon and hoping to find ways to address it, wrote a little book called The Fear of Mathematics and How to Overcome...
Industrial smoke rises near New Zealand’s Kaikoura mountainsColin Monteath/Minden Pictures/Alamy The Burning EarthSunil Amrith (Allen Lane (UK); W. W. Norton (US)) So much has been written about the environmental crisis that it is difficult to say anything new. It is...
The first explorers known to have reached the North Pole spent weeks dragging their sleds across the rough pack ice. Now, people can travel most of the way there from the comfort of a cruise ship, their passage eased by...
A distant planet should have been consumed when its star expanded to become a red giant, perhaps offering insights into planetary migration Source link...
September 26, 20244 min readWhat Really Happened at the Pentagon’s Once-Hidden UFO Office?An office in the Pentagon investigated UFOs—and the paranormal—over a decade ago, segueing into a long saga leading to Congressional hearings and breathless news stories today. But the...
The Franklin expedition was dramatised in television show The TerrorAMC Human remains recovered from the British Royal Navy’s doomed Franklin expedition have been identified as Captain James Fitzjames using DNA and genealogical evidence. The unfortunate officer has also been confirmed...
There are small pieces of plastic in the food we eat and air we breatheSIVStockStudio/Shutterstock It seems that every few months we discover microplastics in a new part of the body. We have found them in our liver, kidneys, lungs...
