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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.
Impressive but deadly physics underlie catastrophic eruptions.
The problems that Americans face are often too complex for fact-checking alone.
A boy in Germany seems to be the first person to be cured of a rare and painful skin condition commonly called "butterfly disease."
In terms of the planets we've discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?
The book "The Genesis Machine" outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.
With a new telescope on the horizon, we reflect on the best pictures of space that came before.
If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.
Can space ever be safe? What about the metaverse?
It's no longer just VR vs. AR. There is an alphabet soup of metaverse acronyms, often used imprecisely. So, what do they all mean?
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.
Someone breaks into a mailbox that stores letters waiting to be sent and grabs some of them in hopes they’ll contain a check that’s been filled in. That's just the start.
In 1990, we only knew of the ones in our Solar System. Today, we know of thousands, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.
On December 19 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the Apollo 17 lunar mission. They were the last people to travel […]
Coupled with 3D printing, biomining the Moon or Mars with microbes could sustain human colonies without constant re-supply from Earth.
Every power source involves trade-offs. Given the challenges of increasing demand and climate change, what is the future of energy?
Certain types of dogs seem to be more discerning than others, however.
It started with a 22-year-old woman, named in papers only as Mrs McK.
The search for worlds outside our solar system has just turned up a planet, TOI-2257 b, with a truly extreme orbit.
We frequently say it's 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that's not all that's in the Universe.