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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.
The Universe has asymmetries, but that's a good thing. Imperfections are essential for the existence of stars and even life itself.
The pulse took just 35 hours to cover the whole world.
Researchers have created a method to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems.
Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity's energy needs.
As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we've ever seen our home galaxy.
Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.
Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.
There really might be extraterrestrials out there, attempting to make contact. Here's how science, not fiction, is attempting to find them.
This Yale researcher is creating an experimental therapy for cystic fibrosis made from viruses – and it’s working.
Einstein's theories of relativity faced fierce opposition. One critic claimed he was attempting to subvert the scientific method.
A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the "Out of Africa" dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.
With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can't we just do it all from space?
In scientific theories, the Multiverse appears as a bug rather than as a feature. We should squash it.
Scientists at UCLA and Penn argue that malfunctioning fat, not necessarily too much of it, is what makes people metabolically unhealthy.
Risqué or just risky?
There are ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way, and ~2 trillion galaxies in the visible Universe. But what if we aren't typical?
From physics and alchemy to theology and eschatology, Isaac Newton’s research was rooted in a personal pursuit of the Divine.
Math offers good evidence that humans can solve any problem — as long as there’s money in it.
Iceland consistently ranks as the most gender-equal nation. It is also the nation where men and women are most likely to pursue sex-typical jobs.