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Warp drive: This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are working to make it so. www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/22/w...

Do you learn just as much from listening as from reading? You can take in the content both ways, but reading has some advantages, according to a researcher. www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/22/d...

"A new study hints that age-related changes in our brains may explain why time feels like it's slipping away faster with every passing year." via @livescience.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/22/w...

'Awakening Experiences' Can Forever Change Your Perception of Reality. These are often evoked by distress, natural beauty, or spirituality. via @uk.theconversation.com www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...

“Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment.

"Ig Nobel-winning research could one day be used to treat people with blocked airways or clogged lungs." by @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/22/b...

How Millie Dresselhaus paid it forward Encouraged early on by Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, the “Queen of Carbon” laid the foundation for countless advances in nanotechnology—and mentored countless young scientists along the way.

How Millie Dresselhaus paid it forward. I met her a few times. A truly amazing human being as well as an extraordinary physicist... www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/21/1...

The exercise paradox: Exercise doesn't help much with weight loss, but it does help with maintaining a healthy weight. via @uk.theconversation.com www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...

"When trying to pick the best among many options, how many samples should you try before you commit? Mathematicians tell us that, to maximize the chances of the best outcome, we ought to ditch the first 37% of any options." via @bigthink.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/21/i...

Humans aren't exceptional. We're arrogant apes. by @jhorganism.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/21/t...

"The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled." via @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/21/h...

"Speaking on Fox News, where the secretary of transportation frequently appears in his acting role as NASA chief, Duffy said SpaceX has fallen behind in its efforts to develop the Starship vehicle as a lunar lander." via @arstechnica.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/21/n...

Why Orange Cats Are Genetically Unlike Any Other Mammal Chris Kaelin, a geneticist at Stanford Medicine, found himself thinking about cats. Not just any cats, but the loud, lovable, and often male ones streaked in unmistakable marmalade. These orange felin

Orange Cats Are Genetically Unlike Any Other Mammal and Now We Know Why. via @zmescience.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/20/w...

Space Debris May Have Struck an Airplane Over Utah The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Sunday that it is investigating an airliner that was struck by an object in its windscreen, mid-flight, over Utah. “NTSB gathering radar, weath

Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah. via @arstechnica.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/20/s...

Aliens May Only Be Detectable for a Very Short Time Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially habitab

Why aliens might only be detectable for a short period of time: "The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect." via @universetoday.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/20/a...

One man's alcohol withdrawal triggered bizarre hallucinations of demon women that would visit him in the night. via @psypost.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/20/p...

Seven Potential Signs of a Brain Tumor Everyone gets headaches. Everyone misplaces their phone or forgets a name now and then. Most of the time, these moments are harmless – the result of stress, fatigue, or just a busy mind. Yet th

Seven potential signs of a brain tumor: "It’s important to stress that having one or more of these symptoms doesn’t mean you have a brain tumour. But if something feels persistently “off” or out of character for your body, it’s worth getting checked." www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...

"Doctors have hailed “incredibly encouraging” trial results that show a triple-action smart jab can shrink tumours in head and neck cancer patients within six weeks." via @theguardian.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/20/i...

Makers of the Q-Collar claim that the device protects against concussion. The FDA cleared it for sale even though they doubted the evidence for that claim. via @washingtonpost.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/18/f...

Researchers make a nuclear fusion breakthrough: "For the first time in a spherical tokamak... they have used small magnetic coils to stabilise the plasma’s outer edge. Until now, that edge has been where the trouble starts." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/18/u...

"It’s a household staple that may be doing more harm than good: the gas stove. A study... finds that gas cookers contribute to air pollution, causing roughly 40,000 premature deaths every year across the EU and the UK." via @zmescience.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/18/c...

Materials advances in the past decade have led to key breakthroughs in fusion energy. More are to come. via @cenmag.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/18/h...

"We already have the tools to flood inland depressions, recreating sea basins like the Mediterranean everywhere... Such projects can deliver... new ecosystems, hydroelectric power, desalinated water, increased tourism, and climate moderation." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/18/w...

"AI could satisfy our deeply held desire to talk to other creatures. But the potential for harm might outweigh the benefits." via @aeon.co www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/17/w...

Meet the Extinct Camels of North America, From Ice Age Giants to Sheep-Size Runners. via @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/17/m...

"For years, the consensus in psychology was that people high in “dark triad” traits—Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism—lacked empathy." But it seems that "dark empaths" do exist. www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/17/t...

"As far as we can tell, the Universe is truly 100% reductionist in nature. Our ignorance about why certain emergent phenomena exist and how they behave is no excuse for magical thinking." by @startswithabang.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/17/y...

A study comparing 4,200 adults from 34 population groups across six continents shows that physical activity doesn't have a big impact on obesity. www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/17/o...

The cars most likely to get pooped on by birds: "Overall, brown, red, and black cars were most likely to be pooped on, whereas lighter colors, such as white or silver, tended to be spared from poop." via @gizmodo.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/17/r...

"Alcohol consumption fosters trust, creativity, and social cohesion, making it an essential part of human evolution." via @bigthink.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/16/t...

"Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that were most likely built before the Late Bronze Age." www.realclearscience.com/2025/10/16/m...