Scotch tape is key to creating thin films of diamond
The sticky stuff helped peel sheets of diamond less than a micrometer thick off silicon wafers, creating membranes useful for electronic devices.
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Who needs the dark web? Drug sales flourish on social media
For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use to evade detection on social media and messaging platforms. Snowflakes, snowfall, and snowmen symbolize cocaine. Love hearts, lightning bolts, and pill capsules mean MDMA, or…
Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes
If you’ve been too busy fixing your video drivers to take part in this year’s Ars Technica Charity Drive sweepstakes, don’t worry. You still have time to donate to a good cause and get a chance to win your share…
Study finds 75% of Facebook shares are made without reading the content
A new study has found that most social media users share links without clicking on them first, relying only on headlines and short summaries. The analysis, which examined over 35 million public Facebook posts, found that around 75% of shares…
Russian space chief says country will fly on space station until 2030
In a wide-ranging interview with a Russian television station, the chief executive of Russia’s main space corporation said the country is now planning to participate in the International Space Station project all the way to NASA’s desired goal of 2030.…
These are our favorite animal stories of 2024
Pigeons that do somersaults, snakes that fake death with extra flair and surprised canines are among the organisms that enthralled the Science News staff.
Symptoms of complex PTSD predict the appearance of psychotic symptoms in daily life, study finds
A study of individuals suffering from both complex PTSD and psychosis found that disturbances of self-organization—a set of symptoms specific to complex PTSD—predicted the appearance of paranoid thoughts and hallucinations (both auditory and visual) within the next 90 minutes. The…
A man silenced by paralysis got his ‘voice’ back, thanks to AI
A few years ago, Casey Harrell was diagnosed with a devastating brain disease. Known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, it left him paralyzed and unable to speak. But last year, a doctor implanted tiny electrodes in the speech center…
Diagnostic dilemma: A man’s penis was turning to bone
A man in his 60s went to the emergency room after a fall and ended up being diagnosed with a rare disorder of the penis.
Verbal IQ predicts political participation and liberal attitudes twice as strongly as performance IQ
A new study published in Intelligence (PDF) has found that verbal intelligence—skills related to language, reasoning, and understanding—more strongly predicts voting, civic engagement, and political ideology than non-verbal (performance) intelligence. Researchers found that verbal intelligence has, on average, twice the…
