Author Archives: Cody Cottier

The search for the long-discredited cold fusion energy source may be catching its second wind, though questions remain about its legitimacy. Continue reading →

How did the universe begin is a question as old as time. Take your pick from these possible theories and you’ll be in good company with world-renowned physicists. Continue reading →

Since a dramatic peak in the 1980s, serial killers in the U.S. like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer have been in decline for three decades. Experts have a few theories that can help explain why.   Continue reading →

Chemistry’s eye-catching arrangement of elements has undergone many changes since its inception in the mid 1800s. To this day, scientists seek to improve it. Continue reading →

Many of Ukraine’s cherished cultural sites and artifacts are already lost. Continue reading →

In the middle of the North Sea, the country plans to erect a power plant that will distribute wind energy far and wide across Europe. Continue reading →

A growing field of scent researchers is trying to preserve the world as it appears to the nose, and even recreating odors that once existed in the past. Continue reading →

We could, in theory, go back in time. But no matter what we do, the past will likely always lead to the same future. Continue reading →

Dubbed an ‘intelligent bomb,’ this biotechnology marks an advance in senolytics, which aims to remove harmful, zombie-like cells from the body. Continue reading →

Researchers simulated the conditions on Saturn’s largest moon to see how matter there might come alive. Continue reading →

The world’s ABCs can be traced back to a handy linguistic innovation by the Semites in ancient Egypt. Continue reading →

How one aerospace company is preparing for the advent of tourism in outer space. Continue reading →

There’s an upper limit to the temperatures we’re built to endure, and climate change will expose more and more people to it. Continue reading →

Around the world, climate change will force people to migrate to more livable locales. But no one knows exactly how many will be displaced. Continue reading →

It doesn’t actually exist, but plenty of drugs are purported to ferret out the facts. These methods, sometimes used in law enforcement, raise scientific and ethical questions. Continue reading →

If our planet hosted an industrial species before humans, the Silurian hypothesis asks, how would we know? Continue reading →

Researchers plea that we brush up on our data literacy, warning that phony satellite imagery could become a common and dangerous mode of disinformation. Continue reading →

A tiny particle’s unexpected magnetism is shaking up what physicists thought they knew about the universe. Continue reading →

Despite its modern link to physical cleanliness, our forebears dipped themselves in water — or refused to — for many different reasons.  Continue reading →

Scientists still strain to make sense of angiosperms’ widespread success, which Darwin called an “abominable mystery.” Continue reading →

Scientists say the technology behind the COVID-19 vaccines could change medicine and lead to new treatments against diseases like malaria, cancer and HIV. Continue reading →

Experts say face masks and other pollution related to COVID-19 measures are stressing the marine environment. Continue reading →

Contenders for the title stretch back through the Enlightenment and the Renaissance to Ancient Greece. Continue reading →

As far as cosmologists can tell, space is almost perfectly flat. But what does this mean? Continue reading →

How careful observation, strict reasoning and clever hypotheses guided the great human endeavor of science. Continue reading →

Anatomical development is well underway before sex determination in an embryo. And, according to evolutionary theory, the better question may be: Why not? Continue reading →

You can thank Julius Caesar, Pope Gregory XIII and 2,000 years of calendar controversy for our New Year’s date and calendar system. Some cultures only recently adopted it. Continue reading →

Though uncooked foods have their advantages, high temperatures usually enhance them. Continue reading →

Bats are the source of more dangerous viruses than any other mammal. Evolutionary tricks and fierce immune systems make them the perfect hosts. Continue reading →

Like it or not, our fat cells are with us for life — even if we lose weight. Continue reading →