The universe took billions of years to form, but 18-year-old Christopher Slayton spent less than two months recreating the "entire known universe" down to the nitty gritty details comprising the solar system, the famous Pillars of creatio…
The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span. That’s a much broader view of the tricky calendar than anyone previously tried to take. In …
Scientists have employed a traditional field of mathematics in an entirely novel approach to investigate the anatomy of human brains. They revealed that the brain is filled of multidimensional geometrical structures that operate in up to 11 dimensi…
When you were a kid, do you remember all the fun things you wanted to do and the adventures you wanted to go on? Jonny Kim achieved his aspirations of becoming a doctor, NASA astronaut, and sniper for Navy. And he finished it all by the time he was…
Archaeologists, palaeontologists, and biologists are working together to reconstruct the genetic dynamics that gave rise to modern Homo sapiens. We know a lot about our forefathers, but there is so much more to learn. Modern Homo sapiens can be tra…
Anyone looking at Rose Ferreira, an astronomy student at Arizona State University and a NASA intern, cannot imagine the road she has taken. As a child, the young woman grew up in the Dominican Republic and did not have access to education. She e…
According to a disturbing new study (link at the bottom), scientists have uncovered a powerful new breed of fact-resistant humans that are endangering the ability of Earth to sustain existence. The University of Minnesota study identifies a virulen…
For the first time, one of the world's most prestigious mathematics prizes was given to a woman. Karen Uhlenbeck, an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, is the first woman to receive the Abel Prize in mathema…
Laurent Simons, a kid from the Belgian coastal town of Ostend, has just graduated from the University of Antwerp with a bachelor's degree in physics, making him the world's second-youngest graduate. Eleven-year-old Simons only took a ye…
Irrationality in our thinking has long troubled psychology. When others inquire how we are, we normally say " fine " or " good ." However, if we are asked about a specific event — " How did you feel about the major meeting …
An astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon walked into a room. It may sound like the start of a horrible joke, but what a group of Italian academics came up with is a truly galaxy brain take: the structures of the observable universe, they claim, are sta…
The interest in space phenomena and the hours of reading the book, The Whole Universe, was what prompted Malick Ndiaye to design a telescope with the few resources he had. The boy born in Senegal, just 12 years old, used some old high-magnificat…
Neuroscientists have used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains. What they've discovered is that the brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dime…
