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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 detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more.
There are many problems with relying on SAT and ACT scores for college admissions. But removing them entirely creates less opportunity.
Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life's final extinction will occur.
Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure.
Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
So far, gravitational waves have revealed stellar mass black holes and neutron stars, plus a cosmic background. So much more is coming.
Discrepancies between observations and theory regarding subatomic particles called muons may force scientists to rethink the quantum world.
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When one path is blocked, a new one must be paved. How Einstein, Heisenberg and Gödel used constraints to make life-changing discoveries:
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James Fadiman PhD, who has 60 years of experience in the field, believes they are.
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Almost every large structure in the Universe displays a 5:1 dark matter-to-normal matter ratio. Here's how some galaxies defy that rule.
Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.
Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis
They call it “Judo T-cell therapy,” and it’s 100 times more potent than regular CAR-T cells.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
The Antarctic Treaty of 1959 prohibited nations from making new land claims on the continent. But it never mentioned claims from private individuals.