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Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.
It is a story with nebulous beginnings and no discernible end.
Even if a balloon flies directly overhead, attempting to shoot it down with a conventional firearm is stupid, ineffective, and dangerous.
Spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they're an easy target and are not completely controllable.
Catastrophes are difficult to predict because they are so rare. But AI using active learning can make predictions from very small data sets.
Your brain may notice fearful faces, even if you don't consciously realize it.
It’s sustainable, nutritious and delicious. Scientists need to ramp up efforts to meet this urgent need.
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Poker pro Maria Konnikova on how to recognize which details matter and master the science of deduction.
Generations ago, cosmologists asserted that the Universe might not just be the same in all directions, but at all times. But is that true?
The pathogen typically kills more than 90% of people it infects.
Some microbes can withstand Earth's most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.
A fascinating 90 minute podcast between Dr. Ivanna Escala and Ethan Siegel on Starts With A Bang!
They cost $1,400 and will make you feel like you’re always on a moving sidewalk.
The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
John Templeton Foundation
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
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Why does time move forward but not backward? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.
What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?
In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age.
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.