The mathematics of love treats fading feelings as a given, not a finding. The one variable the equations say you control is the pause before you answer.
Injectable Satellite Livers: A Helper, Not a Replacement
Injectable satellite livers don’t replace the failing organ. MIT put liver cells in belly fat, and they lived. What the study actually showed — and didn’t.
Chimpanzee Accents Show Up in Laughter First, Not Crying
Chimpanzee accents are real: 11,225 calls from young chimps in Zambia and Tanzania. But the accent reaches their laughter long before it reaches a cry.
Dying Radio Galaxies Still Glow Millions of Years After the Jets Stop
Astronomers confirmed 12 dying radio galaxies still glowing millions of years after their jets switched off – and the fading may run faster than assumed.
Devil Flower: The Black Bloom That Lives Underground in Thailand
Scientists just named the devil flower, a black bloom that lives almost entirely underground in Thailand and makes no food of its own. Fewer than 50 exist.
Dark Matter Detector Caught One Event It Can’t Explain
A dark matter detector a mile underground caught one event it cannot explain — and the physicists still refuse to call it a discovery. Here is why that matters.
New Frog Species in Ecuador Was Filed Under the Wrong Name
A new frog species in Ecuador is loud, common and everywhere, yet it carried a name belonging to a different frog. A jar in London finally broke the mix-up.
The Peat Fires Under Indonesia Won’t Stop Until It Rains
Indonesia’s peat fires burn underground for months, and satellites can barely see them. The reason they can burn at all was decided almost thirty years ago.
Mars Hidden Magma System Found 24 km Below the Crust
A Mars hidden magma system was found 24 km below the crust. Seismic data says the planet built a complex, layered crust with no plate tectonics at all.
Living Transistors: MIT’s Bacteria Compute in 8 Hours
MIT built living transistors from bacteria that really compute — but each calculation takes eight hours. Here is what that slowness quietly reveals about life.