In the desert near Las Vegas, Nevada, Bertha Parker completed her daily tasks of cooking, cleaning, and organizing the day’s finds from the Gypsum Cave excavation and stole away from her role as ...

The idea of mixing brains with machines is nothing new. First proposed in the 1970s, brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) have already achieved a lot over the decades. Initial versions let people move ...

Bacteria survive and thrive even in the harshest environments. Scientists have characterized species thriving in Antarctica, and even in deep-sea oil wells. Now, a study published in PNAS in August ...

Ed: Welcome to Butt Month. Every Tuesday in September, Massive will publish an article on the evolution, science, and technology surrounding the butt. If it touches the butt, we'll be covering it. Why ...

Interesting article! It’s also important to note that these algorithms are trained using a stand-in measure of the actual outcome - so “likelihood of being convicted of a crime” is often treated as an ...

As a lover of plants, this was a great read. I think this article perfectly illustrates how scientific findings that came from very controlled laboratory environments don’t always apply to the real ...

There are so many women scientists that we’ve never even heard of (or at least I haven’t!) who suffered endless frustrations and discrimination to make a difference for future generations. I was ...

Alice Augusta Ball died at the age of 24. Ninety years later, we finally started recognizing her contributions. For centuries, civilizations around the globe believed that Hansen’s disease was highly ...

In this humorous, detailed, yet still accessible book, neuroscientist and illustrator Matteo Farinella takes the reader on a wild ride through key figures and fascinating facts about each of our five ...

There are a few more complexities that could change the color a star appears to us. For example, clouds on brown dwarfs may change how their atmosphere absorbs light, and that’s something researchers ...

This finding is not entirely surprising: high levels of ground-level ozone can damage the respiratory system of birds and also influence them into changing habitat conditions. What is surprising is ...

The researchers confirmed that the desired carotene gene had indeed been inserted by sequencing the plant’s genome and comparing it to to the unaltered golden rice genome. They found one line of ...