Archivo: Science

‘Revolutionary’ blue crystal resurrects hope of room temperature superconductivity
Controversial group’s material could lead to hyperefficient electricity grids and computer chips

Do no unconscious harm: Can ‘hidden’ prejudices in medicine be stamped out?
Researchers, health care providers, and patients are exploring ways to mitigate implicit bias

Dark energy from supermassive black holes? Physicists spar over radical idea
New theory aims to account for one of the universe’s great mysteries

Hidden hydrogen: Earth may hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel
Overlooked by the oil industry, natural hydrogen could power society for thousands of years

Did more than one ancient human relative use early stone tools?
Scientists find oldest Oldowan butchery tools—long seen as a hallmark of our own genus—with Paranthropus fossils

Your native tongue holds a special place in your brain, even if you speak 10 languages
Neuroimaging reveals how polyglots’ brains respond to both familiar and unfamiliar languages

Revised clinical trial form for Alzheimer’s antibody warned of fatal brain bleeds
Eisai strengthened caution on taking blood thinners with its experimental drug

Ancient hunter-gatherers were potters, too
Early Europeans didn’t simply adopt revolutionary technology from farmers, study finds

Deadly sharp points found in Idaho could be first American-made tools
Spear-tip techniques may have made their way from Japan more than 16,000 years ago

Mars had long-lived magnetic field, extending chances for life
Study of famed meteorite by quantum diamond microscope also reveals flips in martian field