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We see objects whose light only arrives just now. But we see them as they were in the past: when that now-arriving light was first emitted.
Hawking’s refusal to upgrade his communication system preserved a voice that became iconic, not just for its sound, but for the profound identity it conveyed.
Featuring SpaceX's "Mechazilla," a first-of-its-kind spacewalk, and more.
"Okay, dad, but GMOs help feed the world."
A wave of innovation is coursing through the nuclear industry — but ingrained opposition is the biggest roadblock.
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“In our current social and physical climate, there's a sense of fatalism, a fear that bringing someone new into the world might be a bad thing.”
Our Universe isn't just expanding, the expansion is accelerating. Instead of dark energy, could a "lumpy" Universe be at fault?
In 1900, the UK clearly was the richest country in Europe. That's no longer the case.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Despite the Sun's high core temperatures, atomic nuclei repel each other too strongly to fuse together. Good thing for quantum physics!
The biases that shape our understanding of the mind.
Temple Grandin's story reveals how embracing neurodiversity can lead to groundbreaking innovations and more successful teams.
It's simpler, more compact, and reusable from year-to-year in a way that no other calendar is. Here's both how it works and how to use it.
A recent measurement has simultaneously settled an ongoing scientific debate while puzzling scientists.
On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?
Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.
One alchemist's search for a whiz-bang method to produce gold unlocked the central science instead.
Why the advertising legend — and author of Alchemy — believes that inefficiency can be genius and insects can unlock innovation.
It's not only the gravity from galaxies in a cluster that reveals dark matter, but the ejected, intracluster stars actually trace it out.
With undersea cables, AI education, and more, the tech giant is helping create Africa’s “digital decade.”