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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.
On July 4, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.
1859's Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Does memory start to work only at a certain age?
Your eyes are playing tricks on you.
The idea of gravitational redshift crossed Einstein's mind years before General Relativity was complete. Here's why it had to be there.
Since at least 600 BC, people have been mesmerized by the concept of the infinite.
Research sheds light on social behavior of these mysterious predators.
No matter how beautiful, elegant, or compelling your idea is, if it disagrees with observation and experiment, it's wrong.
Experts believe they could cut the time it takes a rocket to reach Mars by up to 25%, shaving about two months off the trip.
Experiments cannot confirm what theory predicts about neutrinos. And particle physicists have no idea why.
A "bio-battery" made from genetically engineered bacteria could store excess renewable energy and release it as needed.
Here's what the weather phenomenon baking large parts of the country actually means.
In 200 years, the mortality rate for children under the age of five (per 1,000 live births) has dropped from 40% to 3.7%.
Some of the coastal areas were not repopulated for millennia afterward, showing that there was a long-lasting memory of this tragic event.
The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?
Quite a lot, actually, even though it has no identifiable value as a scientific concept.
The discovery calls into question the few things scientists know about these powerful astronomical phenomena.
Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.