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A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here's what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.
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The polymath used science to elevate his art.
The "Ring Nebula," known for almost 250 years, is so much more than a Ring. With JWST's capabilities, we're seeing more than ever before.
By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of the Standard Model, and with it, the quantum Universe.
The visible Universe extends 46.1 billion light-years from us, while we've probed scales down to as small as ~10^-19 meters.
Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.
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Evolution doesn’t fix things — it reinvents them. A biologist explains.
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An X-ray offers a glimpse into the painter’s early years.
We may be the last generation born not knowing if we are alone in the Universe.
For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new paper says no, it's 26.7 billion. How do we decide?
As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.
Perhaps there was something theatrically satisfying about a learned man waving around a flask of pee, looking at it from all angles, sniffing it, and making bold proclamations.
Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it.
People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species." The remains of these unknown creatures often puzzled their discoverers.
There's an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets, and all those chances at life, why do we all live here?
It is generally ineffective, occasionally poisonous, and driving numerous species to the brink of extinction.
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we've found the Universe's background gravitational wave signal!
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
These core teachings make an ideal starting point for exploring Buddhist philosophy.
The truth is out there, but it's probably not in the latest whistleblower's report.
The familiar terrain of solids, liquids, and gases gives way to the exotic realms of plasmas and degenerate matter.
Embark on a journey through one of the most profound ecological transitions in the history of complex life.
It's a useful fiction — but it's still fiction.
A new book by historian and author Paul Strathern argues that the Northern European Renaissance has long been overlooked.
Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.
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