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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.
Even the youngest galaxies are often dust-rich, even with very low levels of heavy elements. Nearby dwarf galaxy Sextans A explains why.
Joel Miller, the author of “The Idea Machine,” joins us to explore why books are history’s most successful information technology.
Astronomers have found starless gas clouds before, but Cloud 9 might be the most pristine one of all, with big lessons for cosmic history.
Scientists found a massive underwater wall off the coast of France that might help explain the origin of the legend of Ys.
In a galaxy less than 300 million years after the Big Bang, oxygen's presence abounds. That's expected; its absence would truly be profound.
In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can't there be an "antigravity" force?
The very word "quantum" makes people's imaginations run wild. But chances are you've fallen for at least one of these myths.