We are accustomed to thinking that animals that have larger brains are more effective at solving cognitive problems. Yet, experiments in Paris find that problem-solving is possible in organisms that ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In 2013, a huge marine ...

What do you call something that’s neither a plant, nor animal, nor fungus? In this case, the answer is “The Blob” — or, seeing as it exists in Paris, France, “Le Blob,” to be exact. To survive the ...

Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum developers care, above everything else, how the mainnet scales. This mission is super important, and matters. Ethereum, if anything, could have been the home of meme coins ...

The humble Hubble Space Telescope has been instrumental in observing something remarkable: the possible and highly unusual birthplace of the most distant fast radio burst (FRB), extremely powerful and ...

If you want to see capitalism at its most feverish, forget crypto or meme stocks. The new mania has a more respectable name: AI Infrastructure. Data centers, mazes of silicon and cooling coils, are ...

The foreign policy proletariat needs to stop filtering its dissent through official channels and start taking more radical action. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is repeatedly interrupted by pro ...

Philadelphia, 1950. Two patrolling police officers witness an object falling from the sky, then discover a mysterious, glowing ooze hanging off a corner telephone pole. As they go in for a closer look ...

Today, everyone rightfully bemoans how much CGI is used in movies. It's not just a problem in big, superhero blockbusters, where movies like The Flash are almost unwatchable because they look like ...

The oil pipeline worker Chester Hargis brings a small container with a frozen specimen of the Blob from the North Pole to be analyzed by his company. He leaves in the freezer of his house, but his ...

The oil pipeline worker Chester Hargis brings a small container with a frozen specimen of the Blob from the North Pole to be analyzed by his company. He leaves in the freezer of his house, but his ...