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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.
Hubble's deepest views of space revealed fewer than 10% of the Universe's galaxies. James Webb will change that forever.
Impressive but deadly physics underlie catastrophic eruptions.
In terms of the planets we've discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?
The book "The Genesis Machine" outlines the promise and peril of synthetic biology, a powerful tool that will allow us to program life like a computer.
Can space ever be safe? What about the metaverse?
It's no longer just VR vs. AR. There is an alphabet soup of metaverse acronyms, often used imprecisely. So, what do they all mean?
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.
Someone breaks into a mailbox that stores letters waiting to be sent and grabs some of them in hopes they’ll contain a check that’s been filled in. That's just the start.
In 1990, we only knew of the ones in our Solar System. Today, we know of thousands, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The massive craft could carry 100 humans to Mars and revolutionize space exploration.
On December 19 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the Apollo 17 lunar mission. They were the last people to travel […]
Coupled with 3D printing, biomining the Moon or Mars with microbes could sustain human colonies without constant re-supply from Earth.
Every power source involves trade-offs. Given the challenges of increasing demand and climate change, what is the future of energy?
Certain types of dogs seem to be more discerning than others, however.
It started with a 22-year-old woman, named in papers only as Mrs McK.
The search for worlds outside our solar system has just turned up a planet, TOI-2257 b, with a truly extreme orbit.
We frequently say it's 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that's not all that's in the Universe.
Many key inventions were unique: one-offs.
The James Webb Space Telescope finally could answer the age-old question of whether we are alone in the universe.
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.