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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.
We'll never be able to extract any information about what's inside a black hole's event horizon. Here's why a singularity is inevitable.
Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.
Bilingualism confers various mental health and social benefits. Perhaps knowing a second alphabet confers even more.
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We don’t need one Elon Musk. We need 8 billion empathic futurists.
By studying the dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte ~3 million light-years away, JWST reveals the Universe's star-forming history firsthand.
An independent researcher looks into why there's such strong opposition to her research.
The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.
We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here's how we know.
"In our studies, people who are more intelligent don’t mind wander so often when the task is hard but can do it more when tasks are easy."
Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That's the best thing that ever happened to us.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that cause leprosy, have the surprising ability to grow and reverse aging in armadillo livers.
The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.
The metaverse is inevitable because it is hardwired into our DNA.
Caffeine does something, but it's not clear exactly what.
Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.
It's on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.