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A data-driven look at the musical traits and social forces behind earworms, from tempo, melody, and mood to repetition, familiarity, and the way hits spread through…
A UBC-led review of global evidence finds mRNA vaccines are safe and highly effective at preventing infectious diseases, with rare serious side effects outweighed by…
CU Anschutz researchers found that healthy but sedentary men had significantly reduced mitochondrial efficiency, lower fuel-transport proteins, and poorer exercise…
A reflective parenting essay about seeing one’s own traits—preferences, quirks, and skills—reappear in children, from train obsession and OCD tendencies to speech…
Sound-based medical technologies are moving from research into real-world use, with ultrasound showing promise in imaging, treatment, and even brain-related…
In 17th-century Amsterdam, Jan van der Heyden and his brother Nicolaas redesigned fire engines, hoses, alarms, and district organization to make firefighting faster…
A devoted Michigan family is fractured when Rachel Piland embraces an extreme Pentecostal faith that rejects modern medicine, forcing her parents and siblings to…
Using over 500,000 anonymized ChatGPT conversations, the paper finds that more than one third involve fiction generation, including original stories, roleplay,…
Works in Progress issue 24, featuring essays on the Glorious Revolution, plate tectonics, nuclear regulation, land reclamation, data centers, wildlife vaccination,…
Interactive visual explanation of how internal combustion engines work, from the four-stroke cycle to major components like the crankshaft, pistons, valves, and…
Scientists assembled a synthetic cell from nonliving components that could grow, replicate its DNA, and divide into daughter cells — a major step toward building…
A software engineer reflects on why winning arguments rarely changes minds, how ego turns many disagreements into fights, and why it’s often better to wait until…
A peer-reviewed mouse study reported that Ewingella americana, isolated from amphibian and reptile gut microbiomes, eliminated colorectal tumors after a single…
Residential batteries are getting cheaper, smaller, and more capable, and utilities are increasingly bundling them into virtual power plants to help balance the grid.…
Victorians once imagined a world where museums could share reproductions of great artworks and monuments, making major works accessible far beyond their original…
Researchers in North Queensland have described a new Propostira spider that uses a spring-loaded silk snare to catch only green tree ants. The spider builds a cone of…
South Korea’s National Science Museum is launching a registry for historically and educationally valuable science and technology materials. The first PC made in Korea,…
Seven writers on untranslatable food-related words and idioms from their primary languages, from Arabic and Bengali to Vietnamese, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, and Yoruba.…
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
The Large Hadron Collider has been switched off for CERN’s Long Shutdown 3, a major upgrade and maintenance period preparing the accelerator for the High-Luminosity…