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Today, the world's largest operating optical telescope is 10.4 meters in diameter. These 3 facilities will lead astronomy's next generation.
The artistic and the mathematical mind are not so far apart.
With the National Solar Observatory's incredible DKIST, we see the Sun in the highest resolution ever. Its latest images blew us all away.
People whose jobs deal with actual emergencies are trained to slow down first. Here's how to borrow their strategies.
Few wavelengths of light reach Earth's surface; the others require going to space. What can the ultraviolet ASPERA space telescope do?
On a world map of lightning strikes, the world’s busiest sea routes glowed bright — until ships cleaned up their act.
Between war, disease, environmental destruction, and resource overconsumption, our civilization's future is uncertain. Can science save us?
As far as we can tell, there's no limit to how far it goes on; only a limit to how far we can see. Could the Universe truly be infinite?
A Cold War accident became a reliable tool for using artificial lights at night to map GDP, poverty, urban sprawl, and even illegal fishing.
When Mark Allen stopped chasing speed, he changed from an injury-prone contender into an Ironman champion.
The Earth is a massive planet, but doesn't form a truly perfect sphere. Here's how to understand our strongest and weakest gravity points.
Our brains are gambling addicts placing bets on what reality holds. And sometimes, they bet wrong.
Neither Vannevar Bush's "Science: the Endless Frontier" nor OSTP's "Science: A New Golden Age" got it fully right. Here's what they missed.
Obviously, the gas giants all top this list. But the fall-off is rapid after that, and the final two spots in the top 10 are truly shocking.
Books to expand your perspective on history, philosophy, space exploration, and more this year.
Human beings only see the Universe now: 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang. What would the earliest life, anywhere, have seen instead?
Andrew Yang, the one-time Democratic presidential candidate, thinks America’s political system is broken. Can third parties fix it?
When people choose the greatest scientist of all, Newton and Einstein always come up. Here's why they should pick Johannes Kepler instead.
Machine learning tools are allowing scientists to better understand forms of intelligence that operate on spaces and timescales utterly unlike our own.