Curiosity Weekly

The most popular cryptocurrency wastes energy by design. Why is that, and could it ever be greener?

New work shows that neurons and other brain cells use DNA double-strand breaks, often associated with cancer, neurodegeneration and aging, to quickly express genes related to learning and memory.

New research from the Mozilla Foundation chronicles a Kenyan social media campaign designed to undermine the country’s judiciary.

The evidence for fungal intelligence is in: they can operate as individuals, make decisions, learn, and have short-term memory.

If people wait to learn from a disaster until that disaster has ended, chances are good that most of those people won’t really learn much.

Explore the deepest mysteries at the frontier of fundamental physics, and the most promising ideas put forth to solve them.

The original Gundam series envisions a future in which humans have surpassed terrestrial limitations and begun to colonize space. Diplomatic tensions soon erupt between the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon, a group of militant Spacenoids. Fully mobilized, the two sides deploy mobile suits—giant mechs—as the conflict expands at an ever-increasing and horrifically tragic rate.