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Who’s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.
We don't know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future.
If you think you know what sex, gender, and "the right thing to do" for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.
Tardigrades can completely dehydrate and later rehydrate themselves, a survival trick that scientists are harnessing to preserve medicines in hot temperatures.
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
Energy balance is the greatest arbiter of weight gain. Embrace the "oinker diet."
There is no such thing as a void in the Universe.
When Einstein gave General Relativity to the world, he included an extraneous cosmological constant. How did his 'biggest blunder' occur?
Gamma-ray bursts are so powerful they could vaporize the Earth from 200 light-years away. Recreating them in the lab is not easy.
Numerous videos online show that squid undergo a dramatic color-changing effect after being stunned or killed.
Hubble showed us what our modern day Universe looks like. JWST's big goal was to teach us how the Universe grew up. Here's where we are now.
The intensely white coloration of the shrimp is a remarkable feat of bioengineering.
With no other galaxies in its vicinity for ~100 million light-years in all directions, it's as isolated and lonely as a galaxy can be.
Once a cosmopolitan faith, Islam valued intellectualism and modernity. It was derailed by various geopolitical and religious forces.
A new book by historian and author Paul Strathern argues that the Northern European Renaissance has long been overlooked.
Named "Phoenix," this AI-powered humanoid could be your next coworker.
The outer planets' clouds hide the weirdness within.
If light can't be bent by electric or magnetic fields (and it can't), then how do the Zeeman and Stark effects split atomic energy levels?
Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?
There are two methods to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. The results do not agree with each other, and this is a big problem.
While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.
In 1974, Hawking showed that black holes aren't stable, but emit radiation and decay. Nearly 50 years later, it isn't just for black holes.
If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.
Fear of technology is not new. But we misunderstand its origin. In reality, we don't fear technology but each other.
And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider "explaining what you know" to an actual expert in the field.
The concept of ‘relativistic mass’ has been around almost as long as relativity has. But is it a reasonable way to make sense of things?
Memorial day is a time to remember veterans killed in the line of service. These spaceflight heroes deserve to be remembered, too.
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s "Dune," science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.
Particle physicists use gigantic accelerators to investigate the infinitesimal.