Whether it’s a kitchen backsplash, new flooring, crown molding or sex swing installation, many of us are called upon to improve our homes using our own two hands. Driven by impatience or anger, some do so without consulting or obtaining the consent of their partners. Magnet Trade’s new study of US homeowners found that nearly …
The Roots of Scientific Curiosity Scientific curiosity, a driving force behind the advancement of knowledge, has deep historical roots. This insatiable quest for understanding the natural world traces back to ancient civilizations, where natural philosophy took center stage. Renowned historical figures such as Aristotle, Galileo, and Newton exemplified this curiosity, laying down the foundations for …
In May 2022, Jason Cooper, a commercial paleontologist, was hiking with a friend on his property near the aptly named Dinosaur City, Colorado, and found a piece of femur sticking out of some rock. This femur led to a Stegosaurus fossil, one of the largest and most complete ever found, and subsequently nicknamed “Apex”. In …
One of the most peculiar things about Uranus and Neptune is their magnetic fields. Each of these planets has a hot mess of magnetospheres, deviated and wildly tilted from their spin axis in a way not seen on any other planet. It’s not entirely clear why, but thanks to a team of researchers from China …
Computer scientists have found out Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots and large language models (LLMs) may inadvertently allow Nazism, sexism and racism to spread in conversational partners. When called upon to empathize, these conversational agents do so in spades, even when the people using them are self-proclaimed Nazis. What’s more, chatbots have done nothing to denounce toxic ideology. …
Using the Euclid Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a whopping 1.5 trillion orphan stars adrift in a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, one of the largest structures in the universe. These orphaned stars, torn from their own galaxies, fill the space between the galaxies of the Perseus cluster with ghostly blue light. This so-called …
Artist’s impression of the VTFS 243 binary system. Credit: ESOL. Calçada CC BY 4.0 Astrophysicists from the University of Copenhagen are helping to explain the mysterious phenomenon in which stars suddenly disappear from the night sky. Their study of an unusual binary star system resulted in convincing evidence that massive stars can completely collapse into …
Scientists have revealed the essential properties of a mysterious radioactive substance for the first time promethium — nearly eight decades after the elusive rare earth element was discovered. Promethium is one of the 15 lanthanide elements at the bottom of the periodic table. Also known as rare earths, these metals exhibit a number of useful properties, including …
Nearly 80 years after scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory discovered an extremely rare radioactive element called promethium, a team at the lab has published a landmark study on the topic that ORNL said could “rewrite the chemistry textbooks.” The research, published in Nature on May 22, is the first time scientists have revealed key …
