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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.
AI was key to making Moderna's COVID mRNA vaccine. Its role in mRNA therapeutics will rapidly grow in the coming years.
Capsaicin is already used to treat nerve pain. Early research hints it could do more.
Scientists don't understand why the correlation exists.
These astounding inventions show that civilizations of the past were a lot more advanced than we might have thought.
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Dispatches host Kmele Foster is on a journey to understand humanity’s role in the cosmos. His first stop? The Atacama Plateau in Northern Chile, home to the darkest deserts and largest telescopes on earth.
For the first time, astronomers have created a data-driven estimate for how many black holes are in our Universe: more than anyone expected.
"Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, and Knox the man who buys the beef." Read the story of 19th-century Scotland's corpse dealers.
See the 3 biggest space stories from October 16-22, 2023.
"Time Warp" all the way back to 1800s spiritualism, magic performances, and spook shows.
We've heard this argument before.
Sophisticated rovers have found the conditions for Martian life, as well as the building blocks of life, but never life itself. AI can help.
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When black holes disappear, what happens to the stuff that fell in? Physicist Brian Cox explains.
If you said "with the Big Bang," congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here's what we've learned in all the time since.
A new study provides the first proof-of-principle that genetic material transferred from one species to another can increase both longevity and healthspan in the recipient animal.
Einstein's theory of general relativity introduced the concept of space having a shape. So, what is the shape of space?
A healthy lifestyle even protects those who are genetically predisposed to depression.
"If we find just one other example of biology out there, then life is not an accident."
A combination of factors make the weather at New Hampshire's Mount Washington arguably the most brutal in the world.
There's a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.
This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.