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Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That's a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power "breakthrough."
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
"Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics."
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
One book will gather all topics on the search for life in the Cosmos.
Even the dictionary doesn't get the definition right.
Oxygen isn't strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.
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Some scientists see religion as a threat to the scientific method that should be resisted. But faith "is really asking a different set of questions," says Collins.
John Templeton Foundation
What we call "basic research" is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.
The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.
John Templeton Foundation
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
Scientists have found three new examples of a very exotic form of matter made of quarks. They can yield insights into the early Universe.
On July 4, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.
“It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research."
The James Webb Space Telescope is about to begin science operations. Here's what astronomers are excited about.
Giant particle accelerators aren't a waste of money. They are essential for understanding the Universe.
A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here's why such a machine could end up being a massive waste of money.
The Standard Model may or may not be in trouble, but particle physics definitely needs saving. Here's what the new LHC can do.
Fermilab's TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here's what doesn't add up.
Scientists have known blobs existed for a long time, but how they have behaved over Earth’s history has been an open question.
The relationship between these two ways of thinking about the world deserves deeper exploration.
When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four "spikes" coming from it. Here's why Webb will have more.
Knowing that technology would advance in the future, NASA put some moon rock samples into storage without opening them. Now, they have.
The far infrared reveals both the coldest and hottest gas in the Universe, and can teach us what no other wavelength range can.
“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”
Life is possible because of asymmetries, such as an imbalance between matter and antimatter and the "handedness" (chirality) of molecules.