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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 confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here's how we know.
"In our studies, people who are more intelligent don’t mind wander so often when the task is hard but can do it more when tasks are easy."
Every time our Universe cools below a critical threshold, we fall out of equilibrium. That's the best thing that ever happened to us.
A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
Mycobacterium leprae, the bacteria that cause leprosy, have the surprising ability to grow and reverse aging in armadillo livers.
The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.
The metaverse is inevitable because it is hardwired into our DNA.
Caffeine does something, but it's not clear exactly what.
Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.
It's on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that "remembers" information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.
It weakens the bacteria so that the immune system can destroy it.
The potential new drug is in a class of its own, as it works differently than any other antidepressant on the market.
Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.