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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.
We can't go back to the Big Bang, nor ahead to the heat death of the Universe. Nevertheless, here are today's natural temperature extremes.
"It can truly allow you to see the physical world in ways that were not possible before."
A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Somewhere out there in the Universe is the heaviest neutron star, and elsewhere lies the lightest black hole. Where's the line between them?
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would "ER = EPR" mean for our Universe?
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.
The 1,200-year-old "Book of Ingenious Devices" contains designs for futuristic inventions like gas masks, water fountains, and digging machines.
Even with quantum teleportation and the existence of entangled quantum states, faster-than-light communication still remains impossible.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
What if we could harvest energy from human heat, sweat, or vibrations?
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
3D-printing robots are being used to build a 100-home housing development in the US state of Texas.
What kind of object will you form? What will its fate be? How long will a star live? Almost everything is determined by mass alone.