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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.
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
We are not yet at the point where quantum communications can be deployed to secure the internet, but we might not be far off.
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Black women are 3x more likely to die giving birth. Here’s one plan to fix that.
It's literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can't cut the mustard.
Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
1.9 billion years ago, a star's explosive death created a black hole. Its light just arrived at Earth. But did it set a cosmic record?
Biotechnology can convert enemy viruses into anti-cancer mercenaries.
Most patients with cancer die from metastasis. Stopping it would be a major advance in cancer therapy.
Humanity is poised to pass the 8 billion milestone mid-November, but population growth is actually slowing down.
Holograms preserve all of an object's 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
An increase in genetic regulatory elements explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins.
Living is about staying busy.
The acceptance of fashionable nonsense is a threat to Enlightenment values and public health.
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.