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We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer's suggestive simulation.
De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.
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Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
John Templeton Foundation
In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.
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Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]
This small phase 1 study suggests that CRISPR-engineered T cells are safe and potentially effective, but there is a long way to go.
Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
Becoming less physically active as you get older is not inevitable.
Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn't even the worst-case scenario.
Between the instability of the real estate market and cryptocurrency fluctuations, everyone has been talking about bubbles. But what are they, really?
Million Stories
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
The answer to this question is key to understanding why anything exists.
We'll never be able to extract any information about what's inside a black hole's event horizon. Here's why a singularity is inevitable.
Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.
Bilingualism confers various mental health and social benefits. Perhaps knowing a second alphabet confers even more.
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We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
By studying the dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte ~3 million light-years away, JWST reveals the Universe's star-forming history firsthand.
An independent researcher looks into why there's such strong opposition to her research.
The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.
We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here's how we know.