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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.
Estonia has long been seen as a pioneer in digitizing the democratic process.
Time gets a little strange as you approach the speed of light.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
Many galaxies really are ultra-distant, but some are just intrinsically red or dusty. Only with spectroscopy can JWST tell which is which.
The cathedral is being explored as never before.
8mins
What makes some scientists culturally significant, while others remain in obscurity? Well, there’s a science to it.
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
A blood test to diagnose mental illness is a "holy grail" of psychiatry.
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.
We are about to learn a lot more about the most elusive of cosmic particles.
Temperatures in the Sun's core exceed 10 million degrees Celsius. But how on Earth did we actually come to know that?
Not everything that claims to be "scientific" actually is. There are five features of scientifically rigorous studies.
A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
Biological age is a better health indicator than the number of years you’ve lived, but it’s tricky to measure.
Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.
1hr 19mins
Steven Pinker explains how to cultivate greater rationality in today's complex world.