9+ hour, 35+ min ago   (218+ words) Physicists have conducted a worldwide hunt for dark matter....

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (441+ words) The Ice Age movies get one major thing right: Climate shifts and glaciation caused profound animal migrations and evolutionary adaptations – though it's uncertain if any of them resulted from an acorn-burying saber-toothed squirrel splitting a continent. During the Pleistocene epoch,…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (319+ words) We already have quantum computers, but they're highly specialized, not particularly practical, and only cover a fraction of the performance potential that scientists think this technology could ultimately unlock....

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (590+ words) Quantum computers are supposed to have abilities far beyond conventional ones, but verifying that they actually do is surprisingly difficult – because checking their results can itself require computations that become prohibitively difficult for classical machines....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (438+ words) This Week in Science: Enriching bread with spinach, a GPS glitch, a new Parkinson's test, and more! First up: Sneaking spinach into bread could be a good way to get more veggies in your diet, providing useful benefits for your…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (414+ words) Familiar things can look very strange when viewed under a microscope – which is why each week we bring you a fresh microscope mystery to put your detective skills to the test. This week's mystery looks almost cosmic – a scatter of…...