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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.
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.
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there's a bright side.
Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.
Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.