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gremlin//Getty ImagesAround four billion years ago, during its Noarchian geologic period, Mars was likely filled with oceans, rivers, and lakes. A new study, analyzing data from a 2017 soil analysis from Gale crater, discovered high levels of manganese, a surprising find as manganese enrichment on Earth often requir...

Trevor RaabHeat. For years it’s been a mainstay in the mechanic’s repertoire for unsticking stuck things. From rusted nuts and bolts to pieces that once slipped smoothly together, there isn’t much a torch can’t fix. There are, unfortunately, a lot of things a torch can burn to a crisp. Trying to protect those things...

Videos posted to Russian and Ukrainian social media show that Ukraine has mated the breakout technology of small, low-cost quadcopter drones with a classic weapon of antiquity and the Middle Ages: spiky caltrops designed to be scattered in the path of enemy forces.View full post on XWhile Ukrainians had already been...

dani3315//Getty ImagesDiscovering a machine that could somehow produce thrust without releasing propellant would be a game-changer for human space travel. There’s just one problem—such a device would defy the laws of physics. This limitation has not stopped people from investigating the possibility, and the latest a...

Devrimb//Getty ImagesIn March of 2024, U.S.-based AI company Anthropic released Claude 3, an update to its powerful large language model AI.Its immense capabilities, especially some introspection during testing, left some wondering if Claude 3 had reached a certain level of self-awareness, or even sentience.While Cl...

Andreas Saatze-Stein / 500px//Getty ImagesIn a 2020 study, crows performed a complex task that involved hundreds of firing sensory analytical neurons. Crows can do jobs, share knowledge, and even ritualistically mourn their dead.Recent research suggests crow brains tightly pack neurons to help make them smart.Crows ...

Andriy Onufriyenko//Getty ImagesEvery computer needs Random Access Memory (or RAM) for an operating system’s temporary storage, and there’s many ways to achieve this need for memory speed. One of the leading methods is magnetoresistive memory, which is both ultrafast and non-volatile, meaning it retains data even if...

SEAN GLADWELL//Getty ImagesThe Colombia government announced a plan to start recapturing some of the sunken treasure from the San José galleon, sunk near Cartagena in 1708.Dubbed the “holy grail” of shipwrecked treasures, even conservative estimates place the worth of the ship’s bounty at billions of dollars. Underw...

Panpsychism, an old theory saying that everything has a mind or mind-like quality, is regaining momentum among scientists.For some scholars, panpsychism is metaphysical mumbo-jumbo, and consciousness an illusion of a mind that has exceeded its natural capacities.How would you react at the thought that the very chair...

koto_feja//Getty ImagesScientists have identified the first unconventional superconductor that you can find in nature.Conventional superconductors follow a specific, well known paradigm called BCS.Miassite does occur naturally, but this test was on a pure, lab-made sample.In new research, scientists explain how one ...

Film Studio Aves//Getty ImagesThe Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) has quickly become a 1,000 square-mile science experiment, as experts use the highly irradiated zone as a chance to understand animal biology placed under those extreme conditions. Biologists from Princeton University studied wolves in the CEZ for a de...

HyeongHan et al. Researchers just detected dark matter on the cosmic web for the first time. Using a technique known as gravitational lensing, the team was able to detect the presence of dark matter even though we can’t see it, further confirming a long-held theory about the superstructure of our universe. Hopefully...

The most popular tank in the world isn’t American; it’s a big cat in service with more than 20 countries worldwide. The Kampfpanzer Leopard 2, which Germany designed and built in the 1970s, is one of the most widely used tanks in the world, and is by far the most popular tank in NATO’s inventory. It was so advanced ...

You may not know the Model F by name, but you know it by sound—the musical thwacking of flippers slapping away. The sound of the '80s office. The IBM Model F greeted the world in 1981 with a good ten pounds of die-cast zinc and keys that crash down on buckling metal springs as they descend. It's a sensation today's ...