The Turkana people of Northwest Kenya have adapted to one of the driest places on Earth by relying predominantly on the milk, meat, and blood from their herds of camels and goats.
With up to 80 percent of their diet consisting of animal…

The Turkana people of Northwest Kenya have adapted to one of the driest places on Earth by relying predominantly on the milk, meat, and blood from their herds of camels and goats.
With up to 80 percent of their diet consisting of animal…

Parkinson’s is the fastest-growing neurological condition in the US, with 90,000 people now diagnosed every year alone – a 50 per cent jump since the mid-1980s. The picture is similar worldwide: a staggering 25 million people are expected to…
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.
Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange themselves into chains of pentagons, decagons, and…

Imagine two people on opposite sides of the world want to share confidential information with complete privacy. One promising option is to use quantum entanglement, a strange property of physics in which two particles become so interconnected…

Now, electricity prices are surging in addition to all of the uncorked demand from the Covid-19 pandemic, when the global economic slowdown and pressure from policymakers kept a lid on utility bills.
“I think if we were to repeat this analysis…