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JWST NIRCam Tarantula Nebula
The glorious sights that JWST keeps revealing are less than a millionth of the whole Universe. Just imagine what else is out there.
dmt
The initial study lays the groundwork for another larger, longer phase 2 trial.
This year marks 2,000 years since the birth of the Roman author of the first natural encyclopedia.
rational vaccinology
"Rational vaccinology" could lead to effective cancer vaccines.
In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.
"I am an anthropologist, and for years, I have spoken to people who have had these experiences."
John Templeton Foundation
From the bedside to the lab bench, here’s how laboratory testing works.
A 1974 concept of a vacuum train
Skepticism is appropriate when gazing into the futurist's crystal ball.
EHT event horizons
Since its observation discovery in the 1990s, dark energy has been one of science's biggest mysteries. Could black holes be the cause?
a human talking to a digital avatar
The danger posed by conversational AI isn't that it can say weird or dark things; it's personalized manipulation for nefarious purposes.
risk-taking illustration
Risk-taking isn't inherently bad: It tends to build self-confidence when things work out, and resilience when they don’t. 
Million Stories
Godfrey Hounsfield’s early life did not suggest that he would accomplish much at all.
When migraine and tension-headache patients overuse their medications, they can actually trigger more headaches.
When you combine the Uncertainty Principle with Einstein's famous equation, you get a mind-blowing result: Particles can come from nothing.
entanglement across space
Are quantum fields real, or are they simply calculational tools? These 3 experiments show that if energy is real, so are quantum fields.
From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.