Pocket Archive: Science, History & Discovery

Scorsese’s latest film looks to the past, but misses the larger picture.

No. It is a myth for mature trees but may work on very young trees with 1 to 3-inch diameters. In short, it depends. A high concentration of dissolved copper can kill trees.

This weekend marks the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

Tian Tian, Mei Xiang and Xiao Qi Ji are preparing for their journey to China. Help the Smithsonian's National Zoo celebrate and say goodbye!

The stunning experiment, which reconstructs the properties of entangled photons from a 2D interference pattern, could be used to design faster quantum computers.

Transformational festivals, the psychedelic renaissance, and cryptocurrencies: Thoughts of an apostate

On nearly every continent, and for all of recorded history, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders.

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In the face of new evidence, physicists are starting to view the cosmos not as made up of disparate layers, but as a quantum whole linked by entanglement

Rivka Galchen on how new research shows that people got the model of aggression and dominance, derived from wolf-pack behavior, wrong.

OSAKA -- A Japanese research team is making progress on the development of a groundbreaking medication that may allow people to grow new teeth, with c

Video of the captain's latest encounters shows orcas "biting off both rudders" of his yacht, with one of the whales seen swimming around with a piece of the rudder in its mouth.

The pandemic and its aftermath have raised anxiety to new levels. But the roots of anxiety-related conditions, including obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder (OCSD), are still unclear. In a new study, University of Utah Health scientists discovered insights into the importance of a minor cell type in the brain—microglia—in controlling anxiety-related behaviors in laboratory mice. Traditionally, neurons—the predominant brain cell type—are thought to control behavior.

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Two players leverage quantum rules to achieve a seemingly telepathic connection

I am an unequivocal rationalist and yet I still want to see something strange and wonderful in life’s weird coincidences

Consciousness should be ascribed to animals only with extreme caution.

The real and complicated story of Ireland's past is a lot more interesting than Irish Americans make it out to be

The ability of psychedelic drugs to pass through brain cell membranes may explain how they help rapidly grow new neural connections.

Researchers possibly witnessed entanglement in the brain, indicating that some brain activity, like consciousness, operates on a quantum level.

And it can affect all of us.

To mummify their dead, the Ancient Egyptians needed to acquire exotic ingredients from faraway places.