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By looking down, scientists are looking back in time.
Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
"They decreased their drinking to the point that it was so low we didn’t record a blood-alcohol level."
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
The Universe isn't just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that's true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth's specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi's atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
Time to rewrite our understanding of structural engineering.
As the Manhattan Project headed for completion, German attempts to build a nuclear weapon had already been dismantled.
The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in 2023. Here's the story of its 100th anniversary.
How fast is the Universe expanding? Two major methods disagree. New JWST data, just released, strengthens this Hubble tension even further.
Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it's a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
The technology could yield "made-to-order resistance genes" to protect crops against pathogens and pests.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many "fundamental constants" does our Universe require?
The use of the letter x as an unknown is a relatively modern convention.
Nature may not allow us full access to the weirdness of quantum mechanics.
Ethicist and doctor Simon Whitney argues that society's overly cautious approach to medical research is blocking breakthroughs.
In many ways, it was worse than Chernobyl.
Two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe disagree. What's the root cause of this Hubble tension?
Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don't affect humans in any way.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery... consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
LK-99, almost certainly, isn't a room-temperature superconductor. The underlying physics of the phenomenon helps us understand why.
The visible Universe extends 46.1 billion light-years from us, while we've probed scales down to as small as ~10^-19 meters.
It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.