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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 potential new drug is in a class of its own, as it works differently than any other antidepressant on the market.
Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.
The dating pool is small — no pun intended.
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
It is humanity's biggest step yet into the Solar System.
Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?
There's the textbook answer, then there's the real answer.
After cryptoassets, a wave of central bank digital currencies is set to revolutionize our ideas about what money is and how to manage it.
SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
We cannot afford to dream about living on other worlds while we continue to destroy ours.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
The image you're seeing isn't a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren't hole-like at all.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
We want to fight invasive species. But to wage a war, you have to know who your enemy is.
In the future, driving an app across a bridge could let engineers know how safe it is.
At 1,600 light years away, the black hole is practically in our cosmic backyard.
It's rare that one single image packs so much beauty and science simultaneously. This Hubble view of a nearby star-forming region has both.
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
The cannabis plant produces both THC – the psychoactive component in marijuana – and the compound commonly known as CBD, which does not lead to a "high."
Three years after the pandemic began, we still don't know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.