Physicists are now using a tightly controlled laser and a cloud of ultracold atoms to imitate the behavior of electrons in solids, effectively building a quantum version of electronics out of light ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places ...

A thought experiment that was at the heart of an argument between famed physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in 1927 has finally been made real. Its findings elucidate one of the core mysteries ...

Being close to a natural habitat such as a forest doesn't necessarily make farmland more attractive to pollinators, a new study shows. It is commonly thought that when farmland is close to a natural ...

THANKS TO A CACHE OF DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS, the public is now well aware of the Central Intelligent Agency’s misadventures in mind control throughout the 1950s and 1960s. MKUltra—the agency’s ...

This real covert operation took place during the 1950s and 1960s with some volunteers and quite a few unwilling participants who were subject to testing by the CIA. Several brainwashing techniques, ...

In Stranger Things, there are many references to things from other fictional worlds, specifically the land of Dungeons & Dragons. But, when the series began to expand the backstory of Eleven (aka Jane ...

Woolhandler and Himmelstein are both general internists, distinguished professors of public health at the City University of New York’s Hunter College, and lecturers in medicine at Harvard Medical ...

Each year, I try to grow a few different fruits and vegetables. Sometimes the unknown crop turns out to be a dud that produces a lackluster harvest, a pitiful yield, or simply proves to be poorly ...