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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.
Some microbes can withstand Earth's most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.
A fascinating 90 minute podcast between Dr. Ivanna Escala and Ethan Siegel on Starts With A Bang!
They cost $1,400 and will make you feel like you’re always on a moving sidewalk.
The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
John Templeton Foundation
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
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Why does time move forward but not backward? Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains.
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.
What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?
In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age.
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
Hundreds of these cannabis-related chemicals now exist, both natural and synthetic, inspiring researchers in search of medical breakthroughs.
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
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Neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky on the science of temptation, and the limitations of your brain’s frontal cortex.
19 years ago, the Bullet Cluster provided an empirical proof for dark matter. Even today, modified gravity still can't explain it.
A new 20-year analysis of over 14,000 psychology studies finds that a study's media coverage is negatively linked to its replicability.
Apart from the energy needed to flip the switch, no other energy is needed to transmit the information.
Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits
Imagine going on a tour through the human circulatory system as a tiny cell. That is just one example of education in the metaverse.
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?