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Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.
The 1,200-year-old "Book of Ingenious Devices" contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Even with quantum teleportation and the existence of entangled quantum states, faster-than-light communication still remains impossible.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
What if we could harvest energy from human heat, sweat, or vibrations?
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
3D-printing robots are being used to build a 100-home housing development in the US state of Texas.
What kind of object will you form? What will its fate be? How long will a star live? Almost everything is determined by mass alone.
The Apple Watch could soon take the pain out of monitoring blood sugar levels.
An innovation's value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.
New research shows psychedelics activate receptors inside brain cells that other compounds, like serotonin, cannot.
The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.
Scientists are still figuring out why tirzepatide causes weight loss. One theory is that they “accidentally” created a new hormone.
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Is science close to explaining everything about our Universe? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder reacts.
If stars don't go supernova at first, they can get a second chance after becoming a white dwarf. But can their companions survive?
The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.
As improving biotech offers us longevity, we can prepare to live much better as we age.
In our Solar System, even the two brightest planets frequently align in our skies. But only rarely is it spectacularly visible from Earth.
Lonely humans will become infatuated with AI-fabricated personas.
All human development, from large cities to small towns, shines light into the night sky.
Deep underwater, temperatures are close to freezing and the pressure is 1,000 times higher than at sea level.
If you're a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren't any neutrinos slow?
Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.