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• How old, once-unusable geometry ideas are now helping us apply big data to medicine

  Your brain is made up of billions of neurons connected by trillions of synapses. And how they’re arranged gives rise to ...

  • The Conversation

• Study: Nearly half of all Americans have a family member who's been incarcerated

  There's nearly a 50/50 chance that you've got a family member who spent at least one night one jail. This, according to the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scientists say flies don’t like zebra stripes

  Zebras are famous for their contrasting black and white stripes – but until very recently no one really knew why they sport their unusual striped pattern. It’s a question that’s been discussed as far back as 150 years ago by great Victorian biologists like Charles Darwin and ...

  • The Conversation

• Humans have completely destabilized land animal diversity

  Species living on land make up 85 percent to 95 percent of all biodiversity on Earth today. This is especially impressive when we consider that the continents cover only 30 percent of our planet’s surface area. And that most land species are descendants of a small number of pioneering ...

  • The Conversation

• Asteroid-powered volcanoes killed the dinosaurs, scientists say

  It’s almost 40 years since scientists discovered what wiped out the dinosaurs: an asteroid hitting Earthnear modern-dayMexico. That was it, or so we thought.A paper published today in Science further supports an alternative hypothesis: that catastrophic events following the impact ...

  • The Conversation

• Here's what the weather looks like on Uranus and Neptune

  The outer region of the solar system may be the least explored, but scientists have managed to unravel several of its mysteries in recent weeks. On New Year’s Day, the NASA spacecraft New Horizons encountered the icy object Ultima Thule for the first time, shedding light on how ...

  • The Conversation

• Why probing this new artificial DNA molecule could help us discover aliens

  In a monumental achievement on this journey, scientists funded by NASA and led by the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• Homenum Revelio! AI will destroy sperm donor anonymity

  Anonymous sperm donors have been around for more than a century, but that's soon to change thanks to the modern evolution ...

  • Tristan Greene

• New research shows bees can do math

  The humble honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths including addition and subtraction, shows new research published ...

  • The Conversation

• Study: Trump's bravado isn't an anomaly, it's the culmination of a century-long political trend

  To outsiders, President Trump’s brazen speech and unconventional style may make him seem like an outlier, the sum of leftover ...

  • Bryan Clark

• AI will soon decide what we eat

  Machines will take away our free will and force us to eat soylent green. Just kidding. They'll actually help us feed more ...

  • Tristan Greene

• A 'Google for bacterial DNA' is helping scientists fight drug resistant infections

  Ever since I read a 2014 WHO report stating that antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill more people each year than cancer ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran