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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.
If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves decay? The far future stability of the Universe depends on it.
Rich data on the global state of our feathered friends presents plenty of bad news — but also some bright spots.
Nobody actually knows what will come of AI. But we can console ourselves with the knowledge that nobody has ever really known anything about the future.
Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.
From cosmetic procedures to heart operations, the introduction of AI will create an ethical minefield.
What do the dark recesses of the early Universe and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom have in common? More than you could have ever hoped for.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
How are we to deal with the quantization of spacetime and gravity?
There may be more energy in methane hydrates than in all the world’s oil, coal, and gas combined. It could be the perfect "bridge fuel" to a clean energy future.
Up until 2002, we thought that the heaviest stable element was bismuth: #83 on the periodic table. That's absolutely no longer the case.
A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.
The brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed, GRB 221009A behaved in unexpected ways that might help us understand how they occur.
Brain activity may be more like "ripples in a pond" rather than signals sent on a telecommunications network.
Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what's the maximum lifetime for a star?
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
At the turn of the millennium, a physicist fooled the global scientific community with the greatest discovery that never existed.
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Plato and Carl Sagan were wrong about the human brain, says a top neuroscientist.
With hundreds of billions of stars burning bright, some galaxies are already dead. Their inhabitants might not know it, but we're certain.
There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our Solar System stacks up against ten of them.
From gene expression to protein design, large language models are creating a suite of powerful genomic tools.