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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 first human trial of base editing delivered strong results along with some safety concerns.
Perhaps it’s not just an oddly shaped hill, after all.
Claims of a sudden infestation appear unfounded.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s airship startup hits a major milestone.
The problem with carnivores turned omnivores.
A game that challenges pedestrians to avoid detection by an AI could help train tomorrow’s self-driving cars.
In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
Chemists could replace bubbling flasks with tumbling ball mills.
This new geologic activity could be part of a thousand-year cycle, ushering in a new era of volcanism on the island.
Visionaries from Socrates to Steve Jobs have touted curiosity as an essential quality. Here’s how to supercharge your spirit of inquiry.
Some 13.8 billion years ago, the Universe became hot, dense, and filled with high-energy quanta all at once. Here's what it was like.
Analog could serve as "always-on" computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.
People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.
A unique combination of DNA and silica is the strongest known material for its density (but you’ll need a lot of it before you can build a suit from it).
The miniaturization of particle accelerators could disrupt medical science.
Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.