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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.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
60% of all potentially dangerous asteroids remain undetected.
In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
The good news is that scientists have found a new way to treat eczema. The bad news is that it's drinkable dust mite extract.
Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
A famous explorer's doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
An expert explains the emerging science of nutrigenomics.
Gigantic ranges called "supermountains" formed twice in Earth's history, and they may have had a profound influence on evolutionary history.
Do the health risks outweigh the benefits?
Despite all that we've learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could "God" be the answer?
Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.
Astronomers used supercomputers and an international network of antennas to create the stunning map.
Africa has the most universities in the 2022 rankings with over two thirds of the world’s youngest universities.
If dark matter exists in a large halo in our galaxy, made up of particles, then it's passing through us constantly. But how much?
When we look out at the Universe, even with Hubble, we're only seeing the closest, biggest, brightest galaxies. Here's where the rest are.
There's a limit to how large planets can be, and it's only about double the radius of Jupiter. At least, so far.
MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that respond to singing but not other types of music.
A gigantic bacterium evolved differently than fundamental models of biology would have predicted. Simply put, these bacteria shouldn't exist.
The rhetorical fallout is greater than the radioactive fallout.
Lessons from child development research teach us how we learn to trust others.