Surprising Science

Any forecast attempting to predict the weather beyond seven to 10 days isn’t credible, say meteorologists. This hasn’t stopped AccuWeather from rolling out a 90-day forecast feature.

NASA picked up a completely unexpected gamma-ray burst coming from the same black holes that proved gravitational waves.

Like many things in America, death is a business. And we’re not doing it well. 

Scientists and pretty much anyone who’s taken a biology class is used to talking about reproduction in a certain way. Is that way accurate?   

Wonder how your brain makes space for new memories? Scientists at Oxford just discovered how. 

A mysterious, unidentifed, low-frequency hum as been baffling people for years.

There is a crisis in male health. Learn what it is and how scientists plan to overcome it.

You may not have heard, but agriculture is about to undergo a truly organic revolution. Indigo is one of many agriculture businesses that’s researching how microbes can help increase crop yields even as our climate changes.

There are continuous gaps in consciousness when information is processed and you lose a sense of time says new research.

The Advent of Wearable Tech is here and it Pairs Perfectly with Medical Detection.   

Groundbreaking brain scans by a crowdfunded study at Imperial College London show how LSD affects the brain and consciousness.

How did human blood types evolve to what they are today? Some scientists believe it was our first defense against disease.

A lay explanation of what brainwaves actually are.

Comedian Ruby Wax explains the brain like no one else.

How does life bounce-back after an extinction-level event? Researchers are studying how the therapsid Lystrosaurus survived through one of the “Big Five” extinction events. It may help scientists predict how Earth will bounce-back from the mass extinction we’re witnessing today.

Learn what PTSD does to the brain, and how someone can bounce back.

Scientists in Australia have just discovered a link between dark chocolate and mood. And all they had to do was feed people chocolate for a month. 

Steven Kotler explains what happens in your brain at aha moments.

Psychedelic mushrooms may be the explanation to how the human neocortex experienced a dramatic evolutionary change from early hominids to homo sapiens.  

Scientists have just discovered that newts regrow limbs differently as adults than as babies – which could finally pave the way for limb regeneration in humans. 

Ex-POWs told researchers about some amazing new mental skills they’d acquired in solitary.

The skull of a “Siberian unicorn” (Elasmotherium sibiricum) was found in the Pavlodar Priirtysh Region of Kazakhstan. A study from the American Journal of Applied Science believes this could proved evidence to show the creature roamed the Earth longer than previously thought. 

It’s a tastier option than you think.   

Climate scientists warn the effects of global warming will cause storms to become more violent and sea levels to rise, and researchers predicts this will happen in the next 50 years.

Therapeutic research on LSD stopped in 1968. Now we’re rediscovering its value.

Scientists at UC Berkeley could change the focus of the birth control debate, thanks to a discovery about sperm. And now that they know how it kicks into gear, they can make birth control for men.  Scientists at UC Berkeley could change the focus of the birth control debate.

How the uncertain fate of a fictional tabby gave us the multiverse.

As we consider the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, the question arises – can any war be fought as a “just” war?  

Radiophobia had the Fukushima region by the throat, so it was decided that all 360,000 or so children and teens would be offered screening for thyroid irregularities.

Between Microsoft’s racist chatbot to beating the world GO champion, artificial intelligence has better things to do than whatever we’re afraid of. Here’s a recap of the highlights.