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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.
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will have a light-collecting power 10 times greater than today's best telescope.
Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn't the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
It's knowledgeable, confident, and behaves human-like in many ways. But it's not magic that powers AI though; it's just math and data.
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Dr. Aditi Nerurkar on toxic resilience and the importance of gratitude and breathing.
Unlikely Collaborators
For its 2-year science anniversary, JWST has revealed unprecedented details in "the Penguin and the Egg." Here are the surprises inside.
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Is human overpopulation alarmist hype with disturbing consequences? Oxford data scientist Hannah Ritchie debunks the overpopulation myth.
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The mind-blowing theory that everything is evolving—from minerals to music—explained in 3 minutes by a Carnegie scientist.
As the Sun ages, it loses mass, causing Earth to spiral outward in its orbit. Will that cool the Earth down, or will other effects win out?
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
Our relationship with chatbots is undergoing a sea change — here’s how the transformation will most affect you and your team.
Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see objects up to 46.1 billion light-years away. No, this doesn't violate relativity.
We know of stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but intermediate mass ones have long proved elusive. Until now.
The Bullet Cluster has, for nearly 20 years, been hailed as an empirical "proof" of dark matter. Can their detractors explain it away?
"Fasting…should not be demonized for simply suggesting that we take a break from eating once in a while."
On a cosmic scale, our existence seems insignificant and inconsequential. But from another perspective, humans are completely remarkable.
Comparing Elon Musk's Mars rocket to NASA's new ride.
The standard picture of our Universe is that it's dominated by dark matter and dark energy. But this alternative is also worth considering.
The military is courting tech startups to help it win the AI arms race.
The properties of a ghostly particle called a neutrino are coming into focus.