Latest articles by Marcus Woo
Why Do People Have Different Personalities?
Where do personalities come from, and why are they so different?
Can People Really Learn to 'Speed Read'?
The promise of learning to read significantly faster is intriguing. But true speed reading isn't supported by the science.
Why Do Babies Lose Their Hair?
Whether your baby has a thick mop of hair or just a few strands, most of it will fall out before she's six months old.
Why Don't Newborns Have Tears or Sweat?
A baby's ability to sweat and produce tears develop weeks after birth.
Proton-Size Droplets of Primordial Soup May Be the Tiniest in the Universe
Researchers may have created the tiniest droplets in the universe, using a soupy mix of ultrahot particles that mimics conditions in the moments after the Big Bang.
Cold, Dark Stars Lurking in the Universe Could Act Like Single Giant Atoms
Mysterious quantum stars that act like single, monster atoms could form surprisingly quickly.
Could This Slimy Corn 'Fix' One of Earth's Biggest Pollution Problems?
Nitrogen fixation is a process that plants use to take nitrogen from the air and transform it into a usable form such as ammonia or nitrate.
Why Does the Earth Rotate?
You can thank the solar system's head-spinning early years for Earth's rotation.
Weird, 570-Million-Year-Old 'Leaf' Fossil Is Actually from an Animal
No it's not a leaf or a long-lost kingdom of life. It's a funny, leaf-like animal.
Oldest Evidence for Life on Land Unearthed in South Africa
About 3.22 billion years ago, ancient mats of microbes clung to pebbles in an ancient riverbed.
Weird Paradox Says 2 Losses Equals a Win. And It Could Lead to Fast Quantum Computers.
Parrondo's paradox takes losing odds and turns them into a win.
Black Holes Could Actually Be Colliding Wormholes
The echoes of colliding wormholes would look different than the signal from merging black holes.
Dark Matter May Have an Electric Charge
The mysterious substance may not just interact with other matter through gravity.
Ghostly 'Lightning' Waves Discovered Inside a Nuclear Reactor
Whistler waves are normally produced in the atmosphere by lightning. They could help protect nuclear fusion reactors from runaway electrons.
Physicists Just Measured One of the Four Fundamental Forces of Nature. Now They're Bummed.
Physicists are looking for signs of new physics, but the new measurement showed no signs of it.
Wormholes Could Cast Weird Shadows That Could Be Seen by Telescopes
Wormholes could leave a signature smooshed shadow that future telescopes could detect.
Why Extraterrestrial Life May Be More Unlikely Than Scientists Thought
One key ingredient for life may be less abundant in our galaxy than scientists thought.
New Theory Explains Mysterious Growth of Metal Strands
Metal whiskers wreak havoc on electronics, but their origin has remained unknown.
