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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.
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Can AI and animals coexist? Philosopher Peter Singer gives us a nuanced take on the issue.
2023's Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
If you find yourself on one of these roads, it might be a while before you see another fellow traveler.
With so many early galaxies of unexpectedly large brightnesses, JWST surprised us all. Here's how scientists made sense of what we see.
Every astrobiologist wants to find an alien. But the public should be skeptical when the "aliens" look like tiny humans.
Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.
The potential benefits of returning the thylacine to Australia make the project worth the effort.
With such a vast Universe and raw ingredients that seem to be everywhere, could it really be possible that humanity is truly alone?
Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
Undeterred by years of failure, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman proved that mRNA is the future of vaccines.
Science and technology were making early modern Europe a better place to live, but at what cost?
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Want to be more intelligent? Here’s why you should hit the gym, according to neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki.
They're not just watching you; they're also calculating.
New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023's Nobel Prize.
In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell "up" provided hope for warp drive. Here's how it all fell apart.
When the UK bans the American Bully XL this year, it won't rely on science to identify them.
Recent high-profile instances of fraud in psychology have led some to wonder if there's anything useful about the field at all.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly's discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.