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Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.
Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
Your brain may notice fearful faces, even if you don't consciously realize it.
It’s sustainable, nutritious and delicious. Scientists need to ramp up efforts to meet this urgent need.
Generations ago, cosmologists asserted that the Universe might not just be the same in all directions, but at all times. But is that true?
The pathogen typically kills more than 90% of people it infects.
Some microbes can withstand Earth's most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.
A fascinating 90 minute podcast between Dr. Ivanna Escala and Ethan Siegel on Starts With A Bang!
They cost $1,400 and will make you feel like you’re always on a moving sidewalk.
The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
John Templeton Foundation
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.
What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?
In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age.
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
Hundreds of these cannabis-related chemicals now exist, both natural and synthetic, inspiring researchers in search of medical breakthroughs.
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
19 years ago, the Bullet Cluster provided an empirical proof for dark matter. Even today, modified gravity still can't explain it.
A new 20-year analysis of over 14,000 psychology studies finds that a study's media coverage is negatively linked to its replicability.
Apart from the energy needed to flip the switch, no other energy is needed to transmit the information.