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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.
If you're a massless particle, you must always move at light speed. If you have mass, you must go slower. So why aren't any neutrinos slow?
Darwin missed an amazing example of evolution.
In a state of "hyperwar," accidents or unexpected AI decisions could lead to widespread devastation before humans could intervene.
The body uses its own electricity to repair wounds. Faster healing may be possible with additional electrical stimulation.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
5mins
We are ~99% genetically identical to chimpanzees. But there are three key traits that separate us.
JWST's revolutionary views arrive in high-resolution at infrared wavelengths. Without NASA's Spitzer first, it wouldn't have been possible.
Using shaped ultrasound, researchers can 3D print objects in one shot.
Baby mice can regenerate damaged hair cells — and now that we know how they do it, maybe we can, too.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
The Fermi paradox (along with the subsequent Drake equation) is so difficult that even brilliant thinkers can make little dent in it.
8mins
Your brain on sex, love, and rejection with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher.
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid "having to live with it?"
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.