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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.
In just a few seconds, a gamma-ray burst blasts out the same amount of energy that the Sun will radiate throughout its entire life.
Humanity's newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Millennials are reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
"Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea."
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
Why can’t more rainwater be collected for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?
The central equation of quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation, is different from the equations found in classical physics.
Researchers are looking at neurons required for touch-mediated pain relief.
The best-laid plans of mice and everyone else.
It isn't just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.
Carnivores, herbivores, omnivores — and now virivores.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
Laser-guided lightning systems could someday offer much greater protection than lightning rods.