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Where the prime meridian meets the equator, a non-existent island captures our imagination — and our non-geocoded data.
4mins
We’re wrong about what other people think – and that has harmful impacts on the next generation.
Stand Together
The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?
"I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient."
The James Webb Space Telescope could help scientists learn about the cosmic dark ages and how they ended.
Psychological safety plays a key role in fostering innovation and collaborative group dynamics where all team members feel comfortable being themselves.
Helplessness isn't learned — it's an instinctual response that can be overcome.
In 1990, we only knew of the planets in our own Solar System. Today, the exoplanet count is more than 5000. Here's what we've learned.
About six minutes after the heart stops, the brain essentially dies.
Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?
Science and the humanities have been antagonistic for too long. Many of the big questions of our time require them to work closer than ever.
Salk scientists studied complex decision-making capabilities in a worm with just 302 neurons and a mouth full of teeth. It's smarter than you would think.
We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish "Wreck Viewer" offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
Sludge may be inevitable, but there are better ways to manage such frictions in our daily lives.
Empty, intergalactic space is just 2.725 K: not even three degrees above absolute zero. But the Boomerang Nebula is even colder.
The idea that the news can make you sick has a long history.
We imagine and debate the inner lives of literary characters, knowing there can be no truth about their real motives or beliefs. Could our own inner lives also be works of fiction?
Scientists at the San Diego Zoo are on a mission to resurrect the extinct northern white rhino.
Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.
