December 30, 20244 min readAuroras May Light Up New Year’s Sky after Solar OutburstsWill still more auroras ring out 2024, a year marked by the celestial displays?By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee BillingsThe northern lights seen over Lindisfarne Castle in...
December 30, 20245 min readHow Frazzled Parents Can Be More Present with Kids during the HolidaysFuture-oriented thinking, rather than careening from moment to moment, can help parents have more meaningful moments with their childrenBy Julia Felton, Crystal Cederna & The...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Imagine a world where food on grocery store shelves is ranked by its healthiness, with simple, research-backed scores. In some countries, that world already...
The suggestion that consciousness has its origins in quantum weirdness has long been viewed as a bit, well, weird. Critics argue that ideas of quantum consciousness, the most famous of which posits that moments of experience arise as quantum superpositions...
Multiple copies of IBM’s quantum Flamingo chip can be connected togetherIBM IBM is planning to build the largest quantum computer so far, by linking together smaller machines to create one with a recording-breaking number of quantum bits, or qubits. The...
You’re probably feeling it: the onslaught of depressing news and commentary about political actions, wars, climate disasters and more. The first few times you’re exposed to a perceived injustice, you feel fired up and ready to fight against it. But...
A reconstruction of the dress from an Iron Age grave in the Netherlands, created by Prehistorisch Dorp in EindhovenHanna Geels A 2800-year-old red and blue checked dress found in an Early Iron Age grave in the Netherlands might be...
Parradee Kietsirikul/Getty Images AFTER our joyful revelling comes the inevitable season of good intentions. When we make our New Year’s resolutions, we often set ourselves ambitious goals – to run a half-marathon, learn a language or write a novel. One...
The skin is by far the body’s biggest organ. Depending on your height and body mass, it covers an area of around 1.5 to 2 square metres and weighs between 3.5 and 10 kilograms – around 15 per cent of...
The northern lights in Denali National Park in Alaska in 2024Tom Walker/Alamy As the new year approaches, I like to take a moment to mark down the things I am looking forward to – whether that be a big trip,...
