Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured ...

Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After centuries of speculation and decades of targeted surveys, scientists have now ...

A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1525 map is the first ever printed in a bible, but there’s just one problem: it was printed backwards. The document nonetheless stands as a transition point between the ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

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Sara Tolbert's research has been supported by funding from NZCER's TLRI scheme. She served as subject matter expert (science) and science advisory group member to the New Zealand Ministry of Education ...

Socrates wasn’t the greatest fan of the written word. Famous for leaving no texts to posterity, the great philosopher is said to have believed that a reliance on writing destroys the memory and ...

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has a unique “connectivity fingerprint” tied to its role in cognition, from ...

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This story is part of The Trip, a CPR News series on Colorado’s new psychedelic movement. Read more here. A conference all about psychedelics wrapped up at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver ...