With their bladed paws, wielded by a rippling mass of pure muscle, sharp eyes, agile reflexes, and crushing fanged jaws, lions are certainly not a predator most animals have any interest in messing with. Especially seeing as they also have the smarts to hunt in packs.
“Lions are the biggest…
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Sunday that it is investigating an airliner that was struck by an object in its windscreen, mid-flight, over Utah.
“NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data,” the federal agency said on the social media site X. “Windscreen being…
You might be surprised to learn that there are more than two types of diabetes. We’re all familiar with types 1 and 2, but you may have seen another one – type 1.5 – making headlines recently.
Type 1.5 diabetes, or latent auto-immune diabetes (LADA) to use its official name, is not a new…
A popular optical illusion can fool some animals, but not others, according to a recent study – and it may shed new light on how perception shaped their survival and evolution.
The optical illusion used in this study is called the Ebbinghaus illusion, where two identical circles appear to be…
Why are there gaps in the asteroid belt?
The answer can be found in dynamical systems, the branch of mathematics that deals with the evolution of chaotic systems over time. The field was the subject of a recent Harvard Radcliffe Institute talk by Laura DeMarco.
“It turns out…
With its long history of incarceration, brutal conditions, and several grisly murders, the stories of hauntings on Alcatraz Island…
In the early 2010s, nearly every STEM-savvy college-bound kid heard the same advice: Learn to code. Python was the new Latin. Computer science was the ticket to a stable, well-paid, future-proof life.
But in 2025, the glow has dimmed. “Learn to code” now sounds a little like “learn…
The author of The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald, once said, “The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.” He was far from alone in that sentiment. Listen to any group of bleary-eyed new parents and one of them is likely to compare sleep deprivation to a form of…
