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Subscribe Sign In | Subscribe Ad-Free Latest News Home Recommended Monday, November 16 Sunday, November 15 Saturday, November 14 Friday, November 13 Thursday, November 12 Wednesday, November 11 Tuesday, November 10 Monday, November 9 Set this view as default? Yes No Set this view as default? Yes No What Really Is a Particle? Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine Corn Ethanol Seems to Be a Failure Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience Moderna Announces COVID Vaccine Is 94.5% Effective Branswell & Herper, Stat What COVID Vaccine Efficacy Above 90% Really Means Zania Stamataki, The Conv mRNA: How a Dismissed Idea Now Fuels COVID Vaccines Saltzman & Garde, Stat Mummy DNA Shows Tuberculosis Infected Humans Recently A. Rossillo, Massive Incredible Images Reveal a Triple Crater on Mars Carly Cassella, Science Alert SpaceX Launches 2nd Crew to ISS, Regular Flights Begin Marcia Dunn, AP The Role of Radioactive Elements in a Planet’s Habitability Matt Williams, U-Today The Most Hellish Planet Yet Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Air & Space Magazine Archaeologists Just Beginning to Unearth Secrets of Saqqara Jo Marchant, Sonian We'll Need More Than One Vaccine to Beat COVID-19 Adam Rogers, Ars Technica How Do Astronauts Escape a Failed Rocket Launch? Doug Adler, Astronomy Follow RCScience: Facebook | Twitter | News360 | Email The Latest Research Madagascar Is Slowly Breaking Into Pieces University of Vermont The Traits That Allow Someone to Run a Two-Hour Marathon University of Exeter How Religion Can Hamper Economic Progress EurekAlert! New Materials Could Power Devices With Ambient Light Hayley Dunning, ICL Humans Of The Future Sponsored By: New Artificial Skin Functions Like Natural Skin EurekAlert! A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: via Veins Adam Rogers, Wired No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep Into the Brain Megan Scudellari, IEEE The Protein Klotho Could Extend the Life of the Brain Dan Samorodnitsky, Massive More From Real Clear Videos Watch: Can You Catch a 1,000 MPH Baseball? Buzzfeed Does Supplemental Vitamin D Help Prevent Covid-19? Buzzfeed Watch: Dissolving Coins in Nitric Acid Buzzfeed The World Is Built on Sand and We're Running Out Buzzfeed -- What Really Is a Particle? Natalie Wolchover , Quanta Magazine Given that everything in the universe reduces to particles, a question presents itself: What are particles?The easy answer quickly shows... Read More Corn Ethanol Seems to Be a Failure Ross Pomeroy , RealClearScience The other day I was filling up my twelve-year-old car at the gas station, and after returning the hose to the pumping unit, swore loudly. I... Read More Moderna Announces COVID Vaccine Is 94.5% Effective Branswell & Herper , Stat Moderna's vaccine against Covid-19 is strongly effective, the company said Monday, building excitement about the potential of controlling the... Read More What COVID Vaccine Efficacy Above 90% Really Means Zania Stamataki , The Conv There was – rightfully – a lot of excitement when Pfizer and BioNTech announced interim results from their COVID vaccine trial.... Read More mRNA: How a Dismissed Idea Now Fuels COVID Vaccines Saltzman & Garde , Stat The liquid that many hope could help end the Covid-19 pandemic is stored in a nondescript metal tank in a manufacturing complex owned by... Read More Mummy DNA Shows Tuberculosis Infected Humans Recently A. Rossillo , Massive Bishop Peder Winstrup died in what is now Sweden in 1679 CE, when tuberculosis (TB) was ravaging Europe. His body was placed in a cool, dry... Read More Incredible Images Reveal a Triple Crater on Mars Carly Cassella , Science Alert In its 4.6 billion-year-long history, Mars has taken its fair share of punches from hurtling asteroids and careening comets. Today, the... Read More SpaceX Launches 2nd Crew to ISS, Regular Flights Begin Marcia Dunn , AP SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private... Read More The Role of Radioactive Elements in a Planet’s Habitability Matt Williams , U-Today To date, astronomers have confirmed the existence of 4,301 extrasolar planets in 3,192 star systems, with another 5,650 candidates awaiting... Read More The Most Hellish Planet Yet Dirk Schulze-Makuch , Air & Space Magazine A new study led by Giang Nguyen from York University in Toronto modeled the atmosphere of an exoplanet known as K2-141b—just over 200... Read More Archaeologists Just Beginning to Unearth Secrets of Saqqara Jo Marchant , Sonian A giant trove of ancient coffins and mummies has been discovered at the vast Egyptian burial site of Saqqara. After hinting at a big... Read More We'll Need More Than One Vaccine to Beat COVID-19 Adam Rogers , Ars Technica On Monday, a press release from the transnational pharmaceutical company Pfizer dropped a rare spark of hope into the ongoing misery of the... Read More How Do Astronauts Escape a Failed Rocket Launch? Doug Adler , Astronomy SpaceX made international headlines this May when their Crew Dragon spacecraft blasted into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying... Read More The Latest Research Madagascar Is Slowly Breaking Into Pieces University of Vermont The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along the diverging East African Rift System,... Read More The Traits That Allow Someone to Run a Two-Hour Marathon University of Exeter Elite runners need a specific combination of physiological abilities to have any chance of running a sub-two-hour marathon, new research... Read More How Religion Can Hamper Economic Progress EurekAlert! Religion hampered the diffusion of knowledge and economic development in France during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914),... Read More New Materials Could Power Devices With Ambient Light Hayley Dunning , ICL Researchers have developed environmentally friendly materials that could harvest enough energy from indoor light to power wireless smart... Read More Humans Of The Future Sponsored By: New Artificial Skin Functions Like Natural Skin EurekAlert! Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) have developed an improved human-skin equivalent that reproduces... Read More A New Way to Plug a Human Brain Into a Computer: via Veins Adam Rogers , Wired The hard part of connecting a gooey, thinking brain to a cold, one-ing and zero-ing computer is getting information through your thick... Read More No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep Into the Brain Megan Scudellari , IEEE The first time Karl Deisseroth used light to control brain cells in a dish, people had a lot of questions, three in particular. Can the... Read More The Protein Klotho Could Extend the Life of the Brain Dan Samorodnitsky , Massive Now's the time to live forever. Futurologists and transhumanists are poking themselves with what molecules they can, seeing what there is... Read More More From Real Clear Videos Watch: Can You Catch a 1,000 MPH Baseball? Buzzfeed Does Supplemental Vitamin D Help Prevent Covid-19? Buzzfeed Watch: Dissolving Coins in Nitric Acid Buzzfeed The World Is Built on Sand and We're Running Out Buzzfeed -- Shining Light on Dark Matter ALICE's Dark Side Sean Carroll -- The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the most intriguing unsolved questions of modern physics. Astrophysical and cosmological observations suggest that DM accounts for roughly 27% of the mass-energy of the universe, with dark energy comprising 68% and ordinary baryonic matter as described by the Standard Model accounting for a paltry 5%. Read More more from Shining Light on Dark Matter A Powerful New Tool to Study the Cosmos Sabine Hossenfelder -- Milky Way's Shredded Companion Gives Dark Matter Clues Sarah Charley -- How to Find Dark Matter With a Billion Pendulums Ethan Siegel -- A Billion Tiny Pendulums Could Detect the Universe’s Missing Mass Ethan Siegel -- The CRISPR Frontier Gene Editing: The New Frontier for ...