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What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?

Biologist Michael Levin has spent his life trying to prove that minds show up in places we’d never think to look.
New research and theories suggest the brain may remain active near death, shaping visions, memories, and possibly our sense of reality.
A new White House report criticizes the immigration of scientists to America, arguing it’s bad whether international students ...
Thermodynamic computing crossed a credibility threshold this week as peer-reviewed papers from Lawrence Berkeley National ...
Quantum physics just delivered a full-circle moment a century in the making. A team of researchers at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has reconstructed one of Albert Einstein’s ...
Life rarely unfolds exactly as we expect. Plans change, experiments produce surprising results, and questions that seem ...
A Southwest Research Institute and University of Texas at San Antonio experiment has passed a critical NASA review, ...
The proliferation of nuclear power in space got a little more real Tuesday with the launch of a small satellite developed by a Florida-based company specializing in nuclear micro-power technology.
Eliot joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher in the spring of 2024. He completed his PhD from the University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute in the group of Jan Thomsen and Jörg Helge ...
any generation of Standard Model fermions transforms as the direct sum of six irreducible representations: These correspond to the six types of left-handed fermion: q L, d R, u R, ℓ L, e R, ν R. Six ...
Scientists have recreated a famous black hole phenomenon in the lab using synthetic rotation, bringing a 50-year-old theory ...
The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and ...