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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've only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.
A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here's why such a machine could end up being a massive waste of money.
The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
We all play the genetic lottery – and the outcome matters a lot.
John Templeton Foundation
On July 12, 2022, JWST will release its first science images. Here are 5 ways the telescope's findings could change science forever.
Scientists found a way to revert pain in mice using gene therapy. Perhaps the same technique could be applied to humans.
Experimental archaeology is the practice of recreating past events using knowledge and tools available at the time. Sometimes, it involves elephants.
It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.
The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.
The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?
This isn't America's first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?
Best in class: Denmark and Uruguay. Worst in class: Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, and Russia.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Humans who've lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
A new study of Martian dust gives insights into the ancient Martian climate. The findings hint at a wetter world.