Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

London Breed has said little in the year since she left office. She has thoughts on the praise that the current mayor, Daniel Lurie, has received. London Breed, the former mayor of San Francisco, is ...

In 1927, Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr debated the nature of what’s known as complementarity—the idea that a photon’s dual wave-like and particle natures can’t be measured at the same time. Now, two ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The thought experiment suggests that we need to avoid human biases in our ...

The American Kennel Club is welcoming three new breeds into its pack. Basset Fauve de Bretagne, Russian Tsvetnaya Bolonka, and the Teddy Roosevelt Terrier, named after the 26th U.S. president, are now ...

Scroll social media for five minutes and you’ll find a thousand versions of the same claim: dogs who “talk back,” sit like humans, shadow their owners from room to room, and seem more interested in ...

In 1991, the Mennen Company marketed a deodorant line to teenage girls called Teen Spirit. But the name backfired, as older kids shunned anything branded as “teen.” Instead, the deodorant was used ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

Even though it was obviously a dude in a suit, the Xenomorph in the first Alien film is downright terrifying. Due in part to its limited screentime, creating an atmosphere full of tension, and its ...

Dane County supervisors toured Ridglan Farms, a controversial beagle-breeding facility used for scientific experiments, with no photos or video allowed. Supervisor Rick Rose described the conditions ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Michael Fassbender as David in “Prometheus” / 20th Century Studios Fassbender’s David has arguably ...