Intellectual humility is a key ingredient for scientific progress
Dec 07, 2023 01:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
The virtue of intellectual humility is getting a lot of attention. Its heralded as a part of wisdom, an aid to self-improvement and a catalyst for more productive political dialogue. While researchers define intellectual...
Dec 06, 2023 07:49 am UTC| Science
If you hadnt heard about superconductors before 2023, odds are you know what they are now. Researchers raised eyebrows early in the year with claims of operational room-temperature superconductors, though none has been...
Could you move from your biological body to a computer? An expert explains ‘mind uploading’
Dec 05, 2023 09:20 am UTC| Technology Science
Imagine brain scanning technology improves greatly in the coming decades, to the point that we can observe how each individual neuron talks to other neurons. Then, imagine we can record all this information to create a...
COP28 president is wrong – science clearly shows fossil fuels must go (and fast)
Dec 05, 2023 05:40 am UTC| Science
According to the president of COP28, the latest round of UN climate negotiations in the United Arab Emirates, there is no science indicating that phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to restrict global heating to...
Why isn't there any sound in space? An astronomer explains why in space no one can hear you scream
Dec 05, 2023 05:40 am UTC| Science
In space, no one can hear you scream. You may have heard this saying. Its the tagline from the famous 1979 science fiction movie Alien. Its a scary thought, but is it true? The simple answer is yes, no one can hear you...
Was going to space a good idea?
Dec 05, 2023 05:36 am UTC| Science
In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: Has mans conquest of space increased or diminished his stature? The...
Dec 04, 2023 12:29 pm UTC| Science
If you listen to the dreamers, hydrogen is the magical fuel of the future that can replace everything from the petrol in your car to the coal in a steelworks. Hype around hydrogen has been building in Australia since at...
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