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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.
Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.
Astronomers in 2017 caught an image of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy far, far away. Doing it in our own galaxy is a huge milestone.
The apes taught sign language didn't understand what they were doing. They were merely "aping" their caretakers.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
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Our world would be impossible without quantum mechanics — but we still don’t have a narrative of how it works.
John Templeton Foundation
Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.
We have long thought that Pluto was completely frozen solid, but the discovery of cryovolcanoes challenges that assumption.
Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?
Speculation about the existence of aliens goes all the way back at least to the Greek philosophers. Their arguments will sound familiar.
Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.
The Standard Model may or may not be in trouble, but particle physics definitely needs saving. Here's what the new LHC can do.
Could we finally detect the elusive Unruh effect?
A large study links pornography use to decreased sexual performance for men and increased sexual performance for women.
The simulation gave researchers some of the first concrete data linking climate change to human evolution and speciation.
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Why are we here? What is everything made of? This theoretical physicist says science isn’t the right way to answer these questions.
John Templeton Foundation
Everything that gets heated up has to, somehow, radiate that energy away. Here's what we see when that happens in the Universe.
For a thousand light-years in all directions, there's a "bubble" that the Sun sits at the center of. Here's the story behind it.
A new wave of preventative cancer vaccines are set to begin trials.
