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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.
When stars form, they emit energetic radiation that boils gas away. But it can't stop gravitational collapse from making even newer stars.
If you think you know how an astronomical nova works, buckle up. You're in for a ride like you never expected.
An elaborate device called the Mechanical Turk defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte at chess. Edgar Allan Poe revealed the hoax.
Earth is the Solar System's only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?
“It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research."
Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?
Science doesn't fit neatly into ideology.
John Templeton Foundation