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Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
Questioning isn't just a way to get the right answer — it's also a means for sustaining relationships and creative thinking.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
There's no escaping the death of loved ones. But that doesn't mean we're powerless in the wake of loss.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
It turns out it's hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.
This is a perversion of justice.
We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn't). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
There were many other species of human on the planet. Svante Pääbo discovered one of them.
The idea that we're happier at the beginning and end of our lives is really just a comforting myth.
The key to curbing sugar intake may lie in the gut rather than our tastebuds.
Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.
From time-traveling billiard balls to information-destroying black holes, the world's got plenty of puzzles that are hard to wrap your head around.
The crabs' blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic ones, solving any of these puzzles could unlock our understanding of the Universe.