Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Two teeth of a man who lived about 4,000 years ago were discovered to contain abundant bacteria that primarily cause tooth decay and gum disease. The rare find could help scientists better understand how changes… Read More »
Many of us have quietly cut back on our quarantine hobbies, but internet creator Teigan Reamsbottom is still waking up at 4 a.m. to make camp classic pop culture video clips. It also does its best to improve video quality using a dedicated gaming PC filled with RAM and a software suite that uses machine… Read More »
The rotting carcass of a gray whale attracts the attention of visitors at Muir Beach in San Francisco in April 2021. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) When large numbers of gray whales began washing up along the Pacific Coast of North America about six years ago, oceanographers could only speculate about the cause: Was… Read More »
Apple (AAPL) is in the midst of what you might generously call a “difficult” period. The company is battling a high-profile antitrust battle with the Justice Department, falling iPhone sales in China and a regulatory investigation in the European Union. And those are just last week’s headlines. The company also still faces a shortage of… Read More »
Mother’s Day weekend 2019 marked a turning point in Madhuri Shekar’s young life. It all started two years ago with a phone call from a woman named Kate Navin, Audible’s head of theater. Navin said he had recently been provided with money to develop original works by new playwrights, and he called Shekar just a… Read More »
Lord Rees describes Elon Musk as ‘an extraordinary figure’ with ‘a rather strange personality’ – Telegraph’s Andrew Crowley/ Telegraph’s Andrew Crowley Astronomer Royal warned that Elon Musk harbors a “dangerous delusion” that a colony could be established on Mars. Prof Lord Martin Rees, who is also co-founder of the Center for the Study of Existential… Read More »
Words are powerful things. In 2015, with the help of a classics-savvy friend and two psychologist friends, I coined the term “aphantasia” to describe the absence of the mind’s eye. We borrow Aristotle’s word “fantasia” for the mind’s eye and add the prefix “a” to indicate its absence. This term was needed because we came… Read More »
The sun sets over Huntington Beach at the end of a warm December day in 2023. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) Deadly heat in the Southwest. Hot tub temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean. Sweltering conditions in Europe, Asia and South America. In some ways, it’s no surprise that 2023 will be Earth’s hottest year… Read More »