Each year, unfathomable amounts of energy are added to the oceans. Scientists measure heat in joules; the amount of heat in the oceans is so large that we report it in zettajoules. What is a zettajoule? It is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. The amount of heat we are putting into the oceans is equivalent to about five...Read More

his is the story of a man who couldn’t see numbers. After suffering from a rare degenerative brain disorder, a man was unable to see and identify the numerical digits 2 to 9. If he was presented with a picture of the digit 8 and asked to illustrate what he saw, he drew a scrambled...Read More

Mangroves provide protection for coasts against extreme weather. While they may protect shorelines from cyclones, how does a hit from a hurricane affect the mangroves? The literature has been surveyed by Ken Krauss and Michael Osland in a new paper Tropical cyclones and the organization of mangrove forests: a review. A Bruguiera gymnorrhiza forest at the mouth of...Read More

By then, most cosmologists had concluded that the universe contains much more than meets the eye. Observations of pinwheeling galaxies suggested that scaffolds of invisible matter held their stars together, while a repulsive form of energy drove galaxies apart. To learn more, Bennett and his Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team had spent a year...Read More

What you eat undoubtedly impacts your longevity. But what are the right answers when it comes to choosing the best diet for you? One answer is the blue zone diet. The blue zone diet is mostly plant-based, with large daily intake of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes. But it can get somewhat hazy from there....Read More

Quercetin is a favorite supplement of longevity advocates because it’s affordable and seems to have several positive ways of supporting extended life.  Quercetin has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects that may help kill cancer cells, control blood sugar, and prevent heart disease. In some ways, given this significant level of impact, quercetin doesn’t get talked about...Read More

The discovery that a fundamental law of physics cannot be precisely defined challenges the ability of mathematics as we know it to describe reality completely WHAT links a heap of sand, the edge of a cloud and actor Patrick Stewart’s baldness? If you are only vaguely grasping what I am getting at, you are on...Read More

There are many things that we don’t understand about dark matter, but whether it is actually dark isn’t one of them, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. WHAT’S the matter with dark matter? Its name, for one thing. Dark matter is so-called because of the idea that it is like being in a room without a light on. But actually, we...Read More

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in...Read More

A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in...Read More