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Seeker’s Bad Science podcast discusses how the 1999 film predicted today’s...
What if your life wasn’t really your life? What if everything you knew was just a computer simulation? Would you want to know? And what would you do if you did? Welcome to the mind-bending world of The...
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Weather Warlock is the invention of New Orleans musician David Rolston, aka...
Credit: Matt SmithNew Orleans is famous for its music — and infamous for its weather. And at a house on St. Claude Avenue, tucked between the musicians’ haven of Faubourg Marigny and the...
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Seeker's Bad Science podcast explores the zoological weirdness behind Alfred...
Here's a good word to keep in your back pocket: ornithophobia. It means fear of birds, and the psychiatric condition was famously celebrated — or perhaps stoked — in Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1963...
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As wildfires rage, a US Forest Service study finds fewer incidences of...
Credit: Getty Images The West is not only getting hotter, it’s getting less rain — and that’s likely to mean worsening fire seasons for a region that’s already seen a surge in massive blazes in recent...
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While meteorites rarely make it to Earth, researchers are trying to identify...
Credit: Elizaveta Becker/ullstein bild via Getty ImagesOver four and a half billion years ago, our solar system consisted of a disk of debris, which slowly coalesced into the sun, planets, moons, and...
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Following a devastating cluster of storms, Lecomte has resumed his swim...
After navigating rough seas, international oceangoing vessels, and a series of massive typhoons, Ben Lecomte is back in the water. On Wednesday, Lecomte resumed his ambitious journey to swim across...
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A 19th-century thought experiment leads to a breakthrough in advanced computing.
Credit: Weiss laboratoryStrange news out of the labs this week: Penn State physicists have summoned a 19th-century demon. Don't worry — the demon is entirely metaphorical and in fact refers to a...
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Tesla's unpredictable CEO, smoking marijuana with comic Joe Rogan, also...
From the didn't-see-this-one-coming desk: Shares in the electric car company Tesla dropped on Friday after a key executive quit and CEO Elon Musk smoked marijuana on a live web broadcast. Future...
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The 4-billion-year-old rocks of Canada’s Acasta River were formed in...
Credit: SSPL/Getty ImagesThe oldest rocks on Earth were likely formed by meteorites — the space rocks that occasionally survive the extraordinary heat and force of traveling through our planet’s...
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Intense solar activity can threaten telecommunications systems and...
Credit: David Tyler/Barcroft Media via Getty ImagesBack in September 1859, a massive solar storm called the Carrington Event triggered a coronal mass ejection, which produced dazzling auroras in...
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Seeker's Bad Science podcast explores the disturbing entomology hidden in...
When director David Cronenberg released his horror movie The Fly in 1986, he hit a kind of pop culture nerve cluster. The director's signature body-horror vibe freaked out viewers, and the film enjoyed...
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Seeker's Bad Science podcast explores the authentic astrophysics of director...
The first 15 minutes of Gravity, director Alfonso Cuaron's 2013 sci-fi thriller, have earned a place as one of the most startling, wondrous movie experiences ever delivered to the multiplex. Floating...
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TRAPPIST-1 made international headlines last year when astronomers confirmed...
Credit: NASAThe Kepler space telescope, NASA’s venerable planet-hunting spacecraft, is low on fuel and has only a few weeks or months of operations left. But though the end is near, Kepler has been...
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Doctors will be able to measure a patient’s unique circadian rhythms and...
Credit: Caiaimage/Tom MertonYou know that laggy feeling when the clock says noon, but your body is telling you midnight? It’s not just in your head. Medical researchers at Northwestern University have...
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Seeker's Bad Science podcast explores genetic engineering and android anxiety...
Regularly ranked among the greatest science fiction films ever made, Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner has proven alarmingly prophetic. An inspired cross between film noir and dystopian sci-fi,...
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Seeker’s Bad Science podcast looks at the oddly prescient technologies of the...
Total Recall, director Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi freakout, is famous for a lot of reasons. The film was the first adaptation of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick to achieve genuine blockbuster status...
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These are the dangers that astronauts face, and here's what NASA is doing...
Credit: NASAA long trip to space involves facing several dangerous elements. Astronauts can be felled by radiation, develop health problems owing to a lack of consistent sleep, or become...
View ArticleSophisticated image processing technology threatens to swamp the internet...
What happens when you can’t trust what your eyes see on screen? As the post-truth era collides with fast-evolving digital technology, online misinformation campaigns are threatening to trigger a...
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Now 1,000 nautical miles from Japan, Lecomte's swimming campaign across the...
Credit: Seeker/The SwimFar out in the Pacific Ocean, Ben Lecomte swam past a milestone this week.Lecomte, who’s attempting to become the first man to swim across the Pacific in an effort to highlight...
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Researchers have unveiled a new technology called BrainNet that connects...
Credit: Getty ImagesTechnological telepathy is within reach. Back in 2013, computer scientists at the University of Washington reported on a delightfully weird breakthrough. Using a combination of...
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