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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.
Recent research sheds light on how the brain overgeneralizes fear, causing people to be afraid of harmless situations.
Tech entrepreneur Alvin Wang Graylin sketches out a bold new age of AI-led enlightenment underscored by compassion.
There are two different ways to measure the expansion rate of the Universe, and they don't agree. And no, new measurements don't help.
Is gravity weaker over distances of billions of light-years?
A new all-time record! JWST's discovery of JADES-GS-z14-0 pushes the earliest galaxy ever seen to just 290 million years after the Big Bang.
While GLP-1 agonists help people lose weight, different drugs could help them retain muscle at the same time.
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“If given a chance, nature can rebound, and nature can rebound dramatically.” Biologist Sean B. Carroll discusses the resilience of nature and how humans can help it thrive. Humans litter, […]
If you bring too much mass or energy together in one location, you'll inevitably create a black hole. So why didn't the Big Bang become one?
The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?
Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
The preservation and celebration of life, and not greed, should be our primary decision-making value.
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
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Wharton professor Ethan Mollick explains why “co-intelligence may be the future of AI.
It's 2024, and we still only know of the fundamental particles of the Standard Model: nothing more. But these 8 unanswered questions remain.
Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 completed the Standard Model. Here's why it remains fascinating.
Acclaimed writer Mauro Javier Cárdenas used AI in his latest work to surprising effect.
For well over a century, engineers have proposed harnessing the ocean’s tides for energy. But the idea hasn’t seemed to register in many places.
The threats Mars astronauts face — and how NASA is working to solve them.
We will believe in AGI when it calls on Facetime.
A new technique that can automatically classify phases of physical systems could help scientists investigate novel materials.