Category: 7. Science

The Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) seeks to explain how statistical mechanics arises in isolated quantum systems, and recent work has focused on understanding the behaviour of physical properties within the system’s energy…

For the first time in its 25-year history, all eight docking ports on the International Space Station (ISS) are occupied, according to NASA.

The rare “orbital traffic jam” occurred after Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft was…

Many would-be whistleblowers write to us about papers with nonexistent references, possibly hallucinated by artificial intelligence. One reader recently alerted us to fake references in … an ethics journal. In an article about…

A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain’s smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and…

Today’s Image of the Day from the European Space Agency features a distinctive circular pattern in the Sahara Desert that has sparked curiosity for many years. 

The formation, known as the Richat Structure or the eye of the Sahara, appears…

The question of when people first arrived in the land mass that now comprises much of Australasia has long been a source of scientific debate.

Many Aboriginal people believe they have lived on the land since time immemorial. But until the advent…

The question of when people first arrived in the land mass that now comprises much of Australasia has long been a source of scientific debate.

Many Aboriginal people believe they have lived on the land since time immemorial. But until the…