Surprising Science

They plan to record personality, memory, and body function information, and recreate it.   

“We’re opening up a whole new territory of astronomy,” One NASA official said.   

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Neuroscientist Dean Buonomano on how the brain tells time and whether time exists at all. 

Five hundred years after the Reformation, a new book on Martin Luther reminds us how long the notion of a soul has influenced our lives. 

Netflix’s new teen suicide drama has parents and many mental-health experts terrified.

See if these practices can improve your life. 

The biological process they go through is similar to how yeast turns sugar into alcohol. 

On Earth Day, April 22, millions of people hit the streets of Washington, D.C., and cities worldwide to March for Science. People thought of puns and put them on signs. 

One of CRISPR-cas9’s inventors has just announced the arrival of an inexpensive, portable diagnostic tool: SHERLOCK.

I mean, who wants to step into a minefield and start poking around?   

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Joyce Carol Oates on America, idealism, and the shackles we can and can’t shake off. 

Biologists discover biofilms cooperating to share food.

This could have potential therapeutic applications in anxiety and trauma. 

Photographer Craig burrows reveals the secret colors of plants.

The painting measures 12,000 sq. ft. and includes over 300 life-like figures. 

Looking for some fresh real estate? Somewhere not too crowded, far away from the hustle and bustle of the big city? Well then look no further than GJ 1132b, a new planet just 39 light years away.   

What makes some of us more susceptible to conspiracy theories than others? It may have to do with our level of education. 

This could revolutionize organ transplants, grafts, prostheses, and implants.

How many calories are in human anyway?   

Psychologists sort human personalities into five traits, each of which you can score high or low on.

Researchers are bringing together imaging and AI to understand the variations, causes, and potential treatments of depression.

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Social Psychologist Adam Alter on a planet-wide epidemic it’s not (yet) too late to bring under control. 

Researchers develop a graphene-based membrane that may make large-scale desalinization possible.

This breakthrough could improve virtual and augmented reality, surveillance, and reconnaissance.   

SpaceX, the private company with big dreams for manned spaceflight, has launched a partly used rocket into orbit at a lower cost than building a brand new one.

A blacker-than-black coating reveals how our senses totally fail without input they understand.

Pay your bills, slip through security, and take a train, all without fumbling through your wallet.   

A huge landslide and tsunami no one witnessed may foreshadow many more to come in the aftermath of climate change.

Steven Kotler talks about the neuroscience about how flow state turns off time.

The US Air Force and DARPA are even working on laser shielding. That’s right. Force fields.