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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.
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here's why that's an extraordinary feat.
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
For over three decades, toxic proteins were believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease. However, recent studies suggest it might be metabolic reprogramming.
It might be good for your memory.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here's why they're aren't yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
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How to see through the lies that surround us.
the human brain remains highly responsive to sound during sleep, but it does not receive feedback from higher order areas — sort of like an orchestra with “the conductor missing.”
The world is aging, and with age comes vision decline. New research may have found how to improve eyesight in an accessible way.
More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.
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Rituals come as much from religion as they do from the way Earth spins around the Sun.
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.
There are dozens of instructional design models, but most learning designers rely on a select few. Here are four of the most common.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
The costs of such an endeavor would be extremely high, while the potential payoffs would be uncertain.
Deliveries of the $250k Lightyear 0 will start in November 2022.
Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.