Why Do People Have Different Personalities? By Marcus Woo published 15 December 19 Where do personalities come from, and why are they so different?
Can People Really Learn to 'Speed Read'? By Marcus Woo published 30 November 19 The promise of learning to read significantly faster is intriguing. But true speed reading isn't supported by the science.
Why Do Babies Lose Their Hair? By Marcus Woo published 21 September 19 Whether your baby has a thick mop of hair or just a few strands, most of it will fall out before she's six months old.
Why Don't Newborns Have Tears or Sweat? By Marcus Woo published 15 September 19 A baby's ability to sweat and produce tears develop weeks after birth.
Proton-Size Droplets of Primordial Soup May Be the Tiniest in the Universe By Marcus Woo published 17 December 18 Researchers may have created the tiniest droplets in the universe, using a soupy mix of ultrahot particles that mimics conditions in the moments after the Big Bang.
Cold, Dark Stars Lurking in the Universe Could Act Like Single Giant Atoms By Marcus Woo published 31 October 18 Mysterious quantum stars that act like single, monster atoms could form surprisingly quickly.
Could This Slimy Corn 'Fix' One of Earth's Biggest Pollution Problems? By Marcus Woo published 3 September 18 Nitrogen fixation is a process that plants use to take nitrogen from the air and transform it into a usable form such as ammonia or nitrate.
Why Does the Earth Rotate? By Marcus Woo published 26 August 18 You can thank the solar system's head-spinning early years for Earth's rotation.
Weird, 570-Million-Year-Old 'Leaf' Fossil Is Actually from an Animal By Marcus Woo published 9 August 18 No it's not a leaf or a long-lost kingdom of life. It's a funny, leaf-like animal.
Oldest Evidence for Life on Land Unearthed in South Africa By Marcus Woo published 30 July 18 About 3.22 billion years ago, ancient mats of microbes clung to pebbles in an ancient riverbed.
Weird Paradox Says 2 Losses Equals a Win. And It Could Lead to Fast Quantum Computers. By Marcus Woo published 24 July 18 Parrondo's paradox takes losing odds and turns them into a win.
Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes By Marcus Woo published 15 June 18 The echoes of colliding wormholes would look different than the signal from merging black holes.
Dark Matter May Have an Electric Charge By Marcus Woo published 3 June 18 The mysterious substance may not just interact with other matter through gravity.
Ghostly 'Lightning' Waves Discovered Inside a Nuclear Reactor By Marcus Woo published 18 May 18 Whistler waves are normally produced in the atmosphere by lightning. They could help protect nuclear fusion reactors from runaway electrons.
Physicists Just Measured One of the Four Fundamental Forces of Nature. Now They're Bummed. By Marcus Woo published 9 May 18 Physicists are looking for signs of new physics, but the new measurement showed no signs of it.
Wormholes Could Cast Weird Shadows That Could Be Seen by Telescopes By Marcus Woo published 16 April 18 Wormholes could leave a signature smooshed shadow that future telescopes could detect.
Why Extraterrestrial Life May Be More Unlikely Than Scientists Thought By Marcus Woo published 8 April 18 One key ingredient for life may be less abundant in our galaxy than scientists thought.
New Theory Explains Mysterious Growth of Metal Strands By Marcus Woo published 23 May 14 Metal whiskers wreak havoc on electronics, but their origin has remained unknown.
Meteorites Help Reveal How Mars Lost Its Water By Marcus Woo published 29 March 14 After initial water escaped into space, the rest froze.
Climate Alters Mongolian Past And Present By Marcus Woo published 11 March 14 Tree-ring data sheds light on climate change's historic and modern impact.
