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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.
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
Or you might just be a Leo.
The photometric filters for the Vera Rubin Observatory are complete and showcase why they are indispensable for astronomy.
Steel tires may be better for the planet and could replace rubber.
The boiling new world, which zips around its star at ultraclose range, is among the lightest exoplanets found to date.
Humanoid robots are coming, and Ameca is designed to be the ideal platform to study human-robot interactions.
Whether NASA likes it or not, humans eventually will be having space sex.
Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. We explore the number of factors which might explain this difference.
∆G = ∆H – T∆S is one of the most abstract formulas in science, but it is also one of the most important. Without it, life cannot exist.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where's everyone else?
Digital currencies are set to upend paper currencies, but it likely won't be the decentralized utopia some hope it will be.
Driving Teslas and planting trees are nice, but methane reduction, industrial efficiency, carbon removal, and a moderate carbon tax are the most efficient ways to fight climate change.
How can you "touch the Sun" if you've always been inside the solar corona, yet will never reach the Sun's photosphere?
Astrophysicists once believed in a static Universe, containing only the Milky Way galaxy. Science definitively proved otherwise.
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
After more than two decades of precision measurements, we've now reached the "gold standard" for how the pieces don't fit.
Tusks suddenly became a liability, even though in natural circumstances, tusks are very useful.
What was this mammoth tusk doing on the ocean floor 150 miles from land?
After decades of development, whether NASA's Webb succeeds or fails all comes down to five critical milestones that are only days away.
One patient’s surprising results have experts cautiously optimistic.