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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.
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
Early relics and late-time objects give incompatible results for the expanding Universe. This independent anomaly intensifies the problem.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
Oxytocin can boost heart cells' ability to regenerate.
Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.
Many suspicious deaths of both humans and pets have been solved with the help of insects.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
We are not yet at the point where quantum communications can be deployed to secure the internet, but we might not be far off.
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Black women are 3x more likely to die giving birth. Here’s one plan to fix that.
It's literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can't cut the mustard.
Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
1.9 billion years ago, a star's explosive death created a black hole. Its light just arrived at Earth. But did it set a cosmic record?
Biotechnology can convert enemy viruses into anti-cancer mercenaries.