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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.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.
Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.
The crabs' blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic ones, solving any of these puzzles could unlock our understanding of the Universe.
This pup puts us one step closer to resurrecting extinct species.
It's the very closest stars to us that hold the key to unlocking the possibilities for life in star systems all throughout the Universe.
Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.
It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.