October 18, 2023

Human Consciousness Could Be a Side Effect of Entropy, Study Suggests

It’s impressive enough that our human brains are made up of the same ‘star stuff‘ that forms the Universe, but

‘Pseudogravity’: Scientists Use a Crystal to Bend Light, Like a Tiny Black Hole

Physicists distorted a type of material known as a photonic crystal to divert the path of light much as it

JWST Detects Crystals of Quartz in a Strange Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters used data obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) Mid-Infrared

Rare Electronic State Discovered When Graphene Stacks Up

The super-special material graphene continues to surprise and fascinate scientists, this time revealing a rare electronic state termed ‘ferro-valleytricity’, which

Global Emissions Predicted to Hit New High in 2023, Scientists Warn

Global emissions of planet-heating carbon dioxide are expected to rise around one percent to reach a new all-time high in

Strangely Engraved Rock Is Giant ‘Treasure Map’, Archaeologists Say

A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a

‘Unusual’ Mystery of Dead Whales Washing Up on US Coast May Be Solved

Gray whales have been washing up dead on the Pacific coast at an alarming rate since 2019, and scientists think