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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 don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
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Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer's suggestive simulation.
De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.
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Pessimism sounds smart. Optimism sounds dumb. Don’t fall for it, says Wired’s Kevin Kelly.
John Templeton Foundation
In an animal study, it blocked the drug from crossing into the brain.
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Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]
This small phase 1 study suggests that CRISPR-engineered T cells are safe and potentially effective, but there is a long way to go.
Synthetic milk is not a sci-fi fantasy; it already exists.
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
Becoming less physically active as you get older is not inevitable.
Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn't even the worst-case scenario.
Between the instability of the real estate market and cryptocurrency fluctuations, everyone has been talking about bubbles. But what are they, really?
Million Stories
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.