Most of the population of Lisbon was in church when the first quake hit. It was the morning of All Saints Day, 1755, and this was the most prominent city in one of the world’s most powerful countries. None of that mattered, of course, when the shaking started. The Lisbon quake is still a defining […]
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There’s new evidence confirming bias of the “father of scientific racism”
Enlarge / The Morton skull collection at the University of Pennsylvania. (credit: Steve Minicola/University of Pennsylvania) Newly discovered handwritten documentation sheds new light on an ongoing scientific controversy regarding a famous collection of nearly 1,000 skulls amassed by a 19th-century Philadelphia physician. Dubbed the “American Golgotha,” the collection is the work of Samuel Morton, who […]
Scientific Mundine ‘is Horn’s worst nightmare’
ANTHONY Mundine is promising the most meticulous preparation of his career in his quest to batter Jeff Horn at Suncorp Stadium on November 30 and has hired a rugby league fitness guru to help him. The Queensland Government is expected to announce its official support for the fight which involves a cash injection of about […]
EPA docs don’t show any scientific evidence for Scott Pruitt’s climate claims
Enlarge / Scott Pruitt during his confirmation hearings. (credit: Aaron P. Bernstein / Getty Images) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not been able to offer any scientific evidence for statements made by the agency’s former Administrator Scott Pruitt when he went on CNBC in March 2017 and said that carbon dioxide was not known to […]
The Internet-demanded, partially scientific testing of Ultra-Ever Dry (in HD!)
The video that started this journey. It’s Independence Day in the US, and much of our staff is at work near a grill with ketchup and mustard handy instead of office supplies. Though now that we mention condiments, everyone’s favorite hotdog toppings did once crossover into Ars daily life. Back in 2013, a certain hydrophobic […]
Gravitational waves and the slow pace of scientific revolutions
Enlarge / For years, people weren’t sure if gravitational wave were a necessary product of relativity. (credit: Fermilab) LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves came almost exactly a century after Einstein had formulated his general theory of relativity and an ensuing paper mathematically describing the possibility of gravitational waves. Or at least that’s the story as […]
Questioning Truth, Reality, and the Role of Scientific Progress
In an era when untestable ideas such as the multiverse hold sway, Michela Massimi defends science from those who think it hopelessly unmoored from physical reality. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b1095357dcb0f7a9353fcc4/master/pass/MMassimi_2880x1620-2880×1620.jpg
EPA Scientific Advisory Board votes to review auto emission decision
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This is the scientific reason Europe is incredibly cold and snowy this week
Remo Casilli/Reuters European countries have been gripped with extremely cold weather this week. The cause is a blast of frigid air from the northeast. It is part of a wider phenomenon linked to weather in the Arctic, which is weirdly warm this year. The warmth around the North Pole has allowed Arctic air to surge […]