Have Trouble Ignoring Cravings? Science Says This Could Be Why
A new study published in Psychological Sciences explains why it’s so hard to ignore temptation when we’re distracted, stressed, and trying to do it all.
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What would happen if a small black hole appear near the Earth?
If you are traveling in outer space, you should keep as far as possible from supermassive black holes. These terrible monsters absorb everything that is approaching the...
World Science Fiction Storybundle: $15 for 10 DRM-free books from around the world, benefiting English PEN
Lavie Tidhar (previously) writes in about the new World SF bundle from Storybundle, launched today: it’s 10 books, from authors Nalo Hopkinson, Lauren Beukes, Saad Z....
Source of a powerful radio signal from space localized
Using an array of ten 4.5-meter antennas at the radio astronomy observatory in Owens Valley (USA), for the second time in the entire history of observations, astronomers...
Evidence of asteroid migration obtained
Having analyzed carbonate minerals in a meteorite that fell in 2000 to Lake Tagish in western Canada, an international team of scientists was able to estimate the amount of...
How to find an exoplanet with oceans of water?
Numerous tools will appear in the coming decades, and several missions will be launched that may be able to detect oceans of water and possibly life on distant planets,...
Nominate someone for Sense About Science's "John Maddox Prize"
The John Maddox Prize previously is awarded annually by the UK organisation Sense About Science (previously) for “individuals who promote sound science and evidence on a...
Police cameras to be augmented with junk-science "microexpression" AI lie-detectors
The idea that you can detect lies by analyzing “microexpressions” has absorbed billions in spending by police forces and security services, despite the fact that...
These Seals are Singing for Science
As you may have noticed, a number of bird species have proven capable of mimicking snippets of sound they overhear, be it a melody, the wail of an ambulance or a dirty phrase...