The Strait of Messina is thought to be the place where Odysseus faced Scylla and Charybdis. Science can explain this treacherous strait, high tide on one side and low tide on the other.
Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with legendary director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp to discuss Disclosure Day, the science and psychology of alien contact, and why Spielberg believes there’s more out there than meets the eye.
Efforts to revive the Tasmanian tiger and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind of natural world we want to build.
Scientists hope synthetic cells can tell them things about life that natural cells cannot, including such basic questions as how many genes are necessary for a minimal form of life.
The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild.
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There’s a strong consensus among historians that Nixon’s concept of an imperial presidency bringing scientists to heel foreshadowed Trump’s approach and that of his administration. “There are many eerie similarities.”
Memory is one of the strangest abilities you possess. Every time a memory comes under the spotlight of your attention, it can melt and change a tiny bit.
We devised a way to add a protective shield over anticancer immune cells, allowing them to enter cancer’s neighborhood unscathed and decapitate tumors.
A proposed new rule would place all research and other federal grants under the control of political appointees. “It would dismantle the US science ecosystem – but also all federal discretionary grants.”
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