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If we're going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.
Giambattista della Porta's contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.
Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023's show will be magnificent!
Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?
If cocaine affects sharks at all, it does so as an anesthetic, not as a stimulant.
Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.
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We know that humans are an intelligent species. But this biologist breaks down the intelligence of each of our cells — and it will blow your mind.
There are two types of missing, or "dark" matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and non-baryonic. Have we finally found the normal stuff?
The topical gene therapy could one day help millions regain their vision.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.
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Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with light as both a wave and a particle.
Exercise can have surprisingly transformative impacts on the brain, according to neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. It has the power not only to boost mood and focus due to an increase in […]
Nothing can escape from a black hole. So where do Hawking radiation, relativistic jets, and X-ray emissions around black holes come from?
These clocks burn powdered incense along a pre-measured paths, each representing a different amount of time.
Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin's work: 40 years later.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn's moons might tell a different story.
We're separating the facts about EVs from the fiction.
All stars, eventually, run out of fuel and die. Given all the stars we can see and the vast distance to them, are any of them already dead?
The hunt for the elusive particles continues.
Your whole body is part of the instrument.
AI was the most divisive topic in a recent predictions tournament.
Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won't last forever.
We may be the last generation born not knowing if we are alone in the Universe.
Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.
Today, our observable Universe extends for 46 billion light-years in all directions. But early on in our history, things were much smaller.
Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.