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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.
Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
Undeterred by years of failure, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman proved that mRNA is the future of vaccines.
Science and technology were making early modern Europe a better place to live, but at what cost?
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Want to be more intelligent? Here’s why you should hit the gym, according to neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki.
They're not just watching you; they're also calculating.
New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023's Nobel Prize.
In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell "up" provided hope for warp drive. Here's how it all fell apart.
When the UK bans the American Bully XL this year, it won't rely on science to identify them.
Recent high-profile instances of fraud in psychology have led some to wonder if there's anything useful about the field at all.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly's discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
The stench of death is actually fairly pleasant.
In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.
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There are a few theories as to why we’ve never found other intelligent life in our Universe. Physicist Brian Cox walks us through them.
Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.
We used to think, "That email isn’t going to write itself." But now it can, thanks to AI. And there's so much more, from coding to marketing.
“I think it has a real chance to reverse motor symptoms, essentially replacing a missing part.”
The best answer we have is, "Life is matter with intentionality."
Sci-fi enthusiasts have long hoped that a substance called antimatter might experience gravity opposite that of ordinary matter. It doesn't.