Why Do People Have Different Personalities? By Marcus Woo 15 December 2019 Where do personalities come from, and why are they so different?
Can People Really Learn to 'Speed Read'? By Marcus Woo 30 November 2019 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 21 September 2019 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 15 September 2019 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 17 December 2018 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 31 October 2018 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 03 September 2018 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 26 August 2018 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 09 August 2018 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 30 July 2018 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 24 July 2018 Parrondo's paradox takes losing odds and turns them into a win.
Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes By Marcus Woo 15 June 2018 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 03 June 2018 The mysterious substance may not just interact with other matter through gravity.
Ghostly 'Lightning' Waves Discovered Inside a Nuclear Reactor By Marcus Woo 18 May 2018 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 09 May 2018 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 16 April 2018 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 08 April 2018 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 23 May 2014 Metal whiskers wreak havoc on electronics, but their origin has remained unknown.
Meteorites Help Reveal How Mars Lost Its Water By Marcus Woo 29 March 2014 After initial water escaped into space, the rest froze.
Climate Alters Mongolian Past And Present By Marcus Woo 11 March 2014 Tree-ring data sheds light on climate change's historic and modern impact.
Miniscule Molecules Get a Weigh In By Marcus Woo 10 October 2012 Physicists at Caltech helped to develop the first machine able to weigh a single molecule.
Sea Urchins Show The Inner Workings of Development By Marcus Woo 27 September 2012 A decade of research leads to a deeper understanding of how genes interact.
