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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.
As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery… consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
LK-99, almost certainly, isn't a room-temperature superconductor. The underlying physics of the phenomenon helps us understand why.
The visible Universe extends 46.1 billion light-years from us, while we've probed scales down to as small as ~10^-19 meters.
It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.
How scientists are hearing the gravitational background "hum" of the Universe for the very first time.
Someday, scientists could use stem cells to guide the development of synthetic organs for patients awaiting transplants.
Einstein's laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
A company in England has made a test that picks out the compounds from breath that reveal if people have liver disease.
There may be unknown particles lurking inside the quantum foam.
Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here's what we'll learn when we finally observe it.
Metaphors like the Great Chain of Being can lead people to misunderstand evolution and humanity’s place in the web of life.
Decades of Alzheimer's research might have missed a cellular culprit hiding in plain sight.
Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.
The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever.
Pain relievers like acetaminophen and ibuprofen are made with chemicals derived from oil. Scientists have shown how to make them from trees.
Your heart rate reveals your brain activity, which in turn can predict hit songs — and maybe stock performance, as well.
In polarized times, our shared cellular origin can unite us in solidarity and awe — from the embryonic scale to the grandest cosmic perspective.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
From when its light was emitted, the El Gordo galaxy cluster might be the most massive object in all of existence. Here's how JWST sees it.
Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.