In part one of our interview, Mark P. Mills, the Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and the ...

Thanks to Galilean relativity it should be just as hard to run on an inclined treadmill as it is to run on a hill of the same ...

When seawater and freshwater mix, a surprising amount of energy is released. Norway tried to capture this energy using an osmotic power plant, but the plant mysteriously and abruptly s ...

A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of ...

A fossil Pleistocene-age hominin jawbone discovered in Taiwan has now been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, according ...

A team from the Max Planck Research Group for Systems Immunology at the University of Würzburg has identified a previously unknown phase of the immune response. The results, published in Science, ...

There's little point in buying an electric vehicle if you're charging it with electricity generated by fossil fuels. In fact, when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions, your EV may be doing more harm ...

There is a point in human history where everyone alive at the time fits into one of two categories: Either they are the ancestor of nobody alive today, or they are an ancestor of ev ...

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The history of human flourishing is a story of technological progress. From the taming of fire to the Industrial Revolution, our species has found ways to reshape the world, turning scarcity into ...

I am exhausted and pissed off. I’ve got better things to do than this. So forgive my ire, on this sunny day, my normally sunny disposition is temporarily on hold. Here’s a fact: to date, one single ...

If you’re reading this, you are probably fairly certain that you’re conscious. You likely assume that your loved ones, your less-loved ones and even your weird neighbour are all conscious too. They ...