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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.
Compared to people who took a placebo, the brains of those who took caffeine pills had a temporarily smaller gray matter volume.
Out of sight, but not out of mind.
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them "touch" each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
What we've learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.
Some Europeans really don't want to use the internet.
Size matters, but it's not the only thing.
Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
In Einstein's relativity and the Standard Model, we only have three spatial dimensions. But there could be more, and many think there are.
Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won't.
In just a few seconds, a gamma-ray burst blasts out the same amount of energy that the Sun will radiate throughout its entire life.
Humanity's newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.
Ancient bones reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
Millennials are reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
"Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea."