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When people born blind gain sight, the hardest part isn’t opening their eyes — it’s teaching the brain how to see.
No human has ever left the Solar System, and only six already-launched spacecraft will ever exit it. Will Voyager 1 remain the most distant?
Quantum entanglement links information between particles across space and time. So what happens when one of them falls into a black hole?
Forget about the terawatt lasers we're making on Earth. The Universe makes natural ones thousands of times more powerful than the Sun.
Even space and time are relative in Einstein's universe. That means our old notions of "where" and "when" no longer apply on cosmic scales.
The idea that it’s “too late” to reduce emissions fuels cynicism and despair, putting us on an even worse trajectory.
There are plenty of engineering obstacles, and those can be overcome. But you cannot change the laws of physics, and those matter too.
The fundamental building blocks of reality are indivisible: quanta that cannot be split or divided. Our understanding remains incomplete.
Long after the last star burns out, the Universe will experience its end state: a heat death. Will everything prior then be meaningless?
Science fiction romanticized Mars as a place of adventure and future settlement; science tells a very different story.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
A big open question in 21st-century science is how life began here on Earth. The metabolism-first scenario just might be the best one.
The “dystopian” biotech imagined in these novels is now changing real lives for the better.
From global DNA screening standards to safeguards for benchtop synthesizers and AI tools, a new biosecurity playbook is taking shape.
Technology, shifting rules, and human ambition push athletes beyond biology’s perceived limits.
New biotech tools could clean up everything from construction to agriculture.
Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of artificial intelligence.
Speculative evolution explores the strange paths natural selection might have taken — and what that means for humans.
Some sci-fi aliens are wildly implausible. Others aren’t so far-fetched.
By treating the human body as an information system, scientists are using AI to simulate cells, visualize hidden biology, and detect disease at its earliest — and most preventable — stages.
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One big goal of science is to find an inhabited, Earth-like planet. But if we find an Earth-like world, will we even recognize it?
Many reactions emit energy, often in large amounts, but cosmic efficiency is another metric altogether. Here's how to maximize your output.
The benefits of mathematical literacy reach far beyond the realm of numbers and equations.
The unanswered questions about sex, love, and pregnancy in space could shape the future of humanity more than we think.
The Universe is expanding, the expansion is accelerating, and some galaxies even recede faster-than-light. Can we see a change in real time?
In this excerpt from The Laws of Thought, Tom Griffiths shares how George Boole developed a mathematical theory of logic.
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn't have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
Before Sun-like stars die, they transition from AGB red giants into preplanetary nebulae. Here's how Hubble sees the famous Egg Nebula.
Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans. In 2026, that matters more than ever.
AI is not a rupture in history, but a continuation of intelligence emerging where information becomes systematically arranged.