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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.
The latest gravitational wave data from LIGO and Virgo finally shows us the truth: there are no "gaps" in the masses of black holes.
Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.
Virgin birth – which involves the development of an unfertilised egg – has preoccupied humans for aeons. And although it can’t happen in mammals, it does seem to be possible in […]
Based on the atoms that they're made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here's why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
“Should they strike, each of them has an energy at impact equal to all of the nuclear weapons on Earth combined."
A mouthwash solution containing ferumoxytol and a dye could treat, prevent, and diagnose tooth decay, according to UPenn researchers.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Are hardened wood knives and nails coming to a store near you?
There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.
Wireless charging isn't just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
Surface deformation or other signs of an impending explosion may not occur. Instead, supervolcanic eruptions can be much more insidious.
If used improperly, the metaverse could be more divisive than social media and an insidious threat to society and even reality itself.
These studies are only the tip of the iceberg, with adverse consequence of the time change ranging from student test scores to stock market returns.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
Looking with lasers, researchers discovered that many Olmec and Mayan ruins seem to have been constructed from the same blueprint.
There's a big difference between the notions of 'false vacuum' and 'true vacuum' states. Here's why we don't want to live in the former.
We pretend to be in control, but we have frighteningly little knowledge upon which to base our life’s decisions.
But the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope compels us to add, “so far.” Beginning with its 1990 launch, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized our conception of the Universe. This photo of […]
How the search for alien life is taking place right here in our own Solar System. If you want to understand the origin of life in the Universe, you have three […]