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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.
Asteroid collisions aren't always bad.
The AI test can be done every night at home while the person is asleep, without even touching their body.
Venus Life Finder could launch as early as 2023.
Spaceguard shows that we can manage risks to the extinction of humanity — if only we put our mind to it.
Should you blast the A/C even when you're not at home?
Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
The new material may make marine uranium extraction economically feasible.
By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.
Einstein's relativity teaches us that time isn't absolute, but passes relatively for everyone. So how do telescopes see back through time?
Oxygen isn't strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.
When constructed well, post-training survey questions can provide a wealth of information that helps guide future design decisions.
Salt causes a dehydration-like state that encourages the conversion of the starch in the french fry to fructose.
Imagine Flipper trained in the art of espionage.
Are there any advantages to looking so cumbersome?
It's time to let go of those emails from your cousin and the photos of your dinner.
The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, "We were here?"
When Cameroon's Lakes Monoun and Nyos exploded, they released clouds of carbon dioxide that suffocated everything in its wake.