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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 record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.
Here in the 21st century, quantum computing is quickly going from a dream to a reality. But what's hype, and what's actually true?
It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.
The heart's rhythms may play a larger role in shaping psychedelic experiences than previously thought.
The cosmic scales governing the Universe are almost unbelievably large. What if we shrunk the Sun down to be just a grain of sand?
Figuring out the answer involved a prism, a pail of water, and a 50 year effort by the most famous father-son astronomer duo ever.
Here's why the answer may forever elude scientists.
With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.
Engagement with generative AI is a business essential — but all companies should be vigilant.
Earth wasn't created until more than 9 billion years after the Big Bang. In some lucky places, life could have arisen almost right away.
The first-of-its-kind map, which goes all the way down to the level of a single cell, could help prevent common birth defects.
The ominous cloud of acid rain hasn't vanished but rather drifted toward the developing world.
A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.
As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.
Wolfgang Pauli was a brilliant, well-liked physicist and a scathing critic of balderdash.
Even after the first stars form, those overdense regions gravitationally attract matter and also merge. Here's how they grow into galaxies.
Teller and Sagan debated fiercely over nuclear proliferation. But was the conflict as personal as it was intellectual for Teller?
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth's magnetic field.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here's how.