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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.
CERN's NA64 experiment used a high-energy muon beam technique to advance the elusive search for dark matter, offering new hope for solving one of astronomy's greatest mysteries.
The sharpest optical images, for now, come from the Hubble Space Telescope. A ground-based technique can make images over 100 times sharper.
Almost 100 years ago, an asymmetric pathology led Dirac to postulate the positron. A similar pathology could lead us to supersymmetry.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
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At age 37, neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke that would take her eight years to fully recover from. This is how it changed her understanding of the brain.
Unlikely Collaborators
From the coldest planets to spacecraft that have exited the Solar System, these little-known facts stump even many professional astronomers.
A look back at the rise of solar power in the US and what's next.
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Dr. Jen Gunter debunks the most common myths about menstruation.
The Universe's history, from cosmic inflation to the Big Bang to the present, is known. But whether it's infinite or not is still a mystery.
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”
The future belongs to complexity.
Although the Big Bang occurred at an instant in time long ago, we still see the light from it. Will the evidence ever disappear completely?
"How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave."
Known as hypervelocity stars, we originally thought just one would be ejected every 100,000 years. The real number is much greater.
Northern lights in the American South, clusters of huge geomagnetic storms—the Sun is throwing a tantrum right on schedule.
Waistlines are expanding in most countries, except for a skinny list of nations bucking the trend.
Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?
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Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek reflects on Einstein’s greatest contribution.
In December 1968, human beings made their first-ever journey to the Moon aboard Apollo 8. Their most important discovery? Planet Earth.
"By 2040, we hope to see a number of new drugs that have been designed with AI reaching patients."