See no bad headlines, hear no bad headlines, speak no bad headlines.Free for commercial use, via Pixabay.com Ah, bad science headlines. We’ve all seen them. We all know them. They’re used to drive traffic and eyeballs to otherwise mundane stories and articles. We can’t really blame the journalists or the publishers – they need ad

HBO just reminded us that Winter is here. In its new trailer for 2019, fans of Game of Thrones were only offered a few seconds of what will happen in the coming season, the show’s final one. We see a meeting of fire and ice, dragons and wolves, as Daenerys Targaryen with Jon Snow meets

A view of the Brooks Range from Dalton Highway in Alaska, USA photo credit: GettyGetty In recent years, two fields with different approaches to understanding the past—genetics and archaeology—have been somewhat out of synch with each other in their models for the initial peopling of the Americas. Genetic evidence unambiguously shows that the first peoples

Part of the overall panorama.CNSA NASA astronaut David Scott, the seventh person to walk on the Moon and, funnily enough, the first to drive around on it, is one of four people still left alive that can describe such an experience. Per BBC, he said that he’s often asked about what it was like. “I

Note that this is not the 17-year old who recently crashed her car while driving blindfolded, but it does show an image that you don’t ever want to see. (Photo: Getty Images)Getty Here are some safety tips when driving a car: maintain a safe following distance, always use your turn signals, and oh, don’t drive

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Iridium LaunchASSOCIATED PRESS On Friday morning, SpaceX successfully made its first launch of 2019. Later Friday, though, the company also said that it will be laying off 10% of its approximately 6,000-strong workforce in order to become a “leaner company.” This year marks a pivotal time

Our cognition is under attackMickey McManus and Neta Tamir By Marco Annunziata and Mickey McManus The rise of complexity and the fall of decision-making We have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of complexity that exists in the world. Mickey McManus’s book Trillions noted that as early as 2010, the semiconductor industry had reached the point

What are some easy to miss signs of diabetes? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Keck Medicine of USC, 500+ internationally renowned doctors at a leading academic medical center, on Quora: 5 Easy-to-Miss Signs of Diabetes This

OSLO (Reuters) – Rapid shifts in the Earth’s north magnetic pole are forcing researchers to make an unprecedented early update to a model that helps navigation by ships, planes and submarines in the Arctic, scientists said. FILE PHOTO: The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen over a mountain camp north of the Arctic Circle, near

2018 is expected to have been the warmest year on record for Earth’s oceans.Getty The ocean is heating up faster than previously thought, according to new research out this week, and that might help explain the recent spate of historic hurricanes and decline in a number of marine species. Basically, the report published in Friday’s

REM sleep is not fully understood, but a way to think about it is that the visual system is operating on “free-cycling autopilot”, unconstrained by the outside world. Think for a moment about freeform dancing, “dancing like no one is watching.” Or similarly, think about how a baby moves when it is on its back

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin A woman stands alone before a large tidal wave coming on to the beach.Getty The oceans have been warming intensely for the past several decades. We are seeing increases in ocean heat waves and record-breaking ocean temperatures which are causing coastal ecosystems to rapidly change. The amount of heat that

Hyundai’s Elevate conceptHyundai Cradle I’ll admit I’m one of those people that has looked derisively at the AT-AT Walkers in “Star Wars” and other weird walking vehicles from various science fiction franchises in the past. I mean, walking is mechanically more complicated, slower and less efficient than a rolling wheel – hence the dearth of

When moving your bowels seems like a feat, what should you do with your feet? (Photo: Courtesy of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center)Courtesy of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center When trying to move your bowels and experiencing constipation, do you know squat? Unless you use an unusually low toilet or have

Artist’s impression of ʻOumuamua, the first known interstellar object to pass through the Solar System.ESO / M. Kornmesser Billions of years ago, our Solar System was an extraordinarily different place from what we know today. Earth had no multicellular lifeforms on it: no plants, no animals, no sexual reproduction. Saturn didn’t yet have its rings,

GettyGetty Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago when a massive asteroid slammed into Earth nearby modern day Cancun. The asteroid triggered an unimaginable mile-high tsunami that swept across Earth’s oceans. The Chicxulub asteroid was 9-miles wide and changed the course of life on Earth dramatically. Geologists mark the asteroid impact with a change in

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Tsunami aftermath in Aceh, Indonesia, December 2004. Credit Wikipedia/AusAID CC BY 2.0.AusAID Geological evidence discovered in 2013 suggested that an earthquake along the Manila Trench caused a tsunami that inundated the coastal areas of China. Geological surveys done by Chinese geologist discovered large boulders on Dongdao,

The Supermoon lunar eclipse of 2015 was the first such combination since 1982, and was the largest diameter Moon to be seen in lunar eclipse in more than three decades. 2018 had one, and so will 2019 on January 20/21.Jimmy Baikovicius from Uruguay When the Sun, Earth, and Moon line up just properly, the shadow

This composite photo shows the moon above various stages of a lunar eclipse.Getty There’s long been anxiety over total lunar eclipses, also referred to as ‘blood moons‘ for the reddish hue that the shadow of the Earth casts on the full moon during the not-really-that-rare event (it happens about every one to three years). Often

LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – A leading geneticist who ran the conference where a Chinese scientist said he had made the world’s first “gene-edited” babies condemned him on Monday for potentially jeopardizing lives and having no biology training. FILE PHOTO: Scientist He Jiankui attends the International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the University of