A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent the brothers on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
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One tiny change might have made a huge difference.
One book will gather all topics on the search for life in the Cosmos.
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
A successful trial that tested a vaccine against bladder cancer in dogs could help develop a similar one for humans.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
This pup puts us one step closer to resurrecting extinct species.
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi’s atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
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Video cameras on city streets are only the most visible way your movements can be tracked.
There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but genetics doesn’t help. Only physics explains why.
James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
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AI programs like ChatGPT can create “thanabots” based on deceased loved ones’ digital communications, allowing us to talk with the departed.
Do you think you know the Solar System? Here’s a fact about each planet that might surprise you when you see it!
A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”
The $300,000 Model A is a true flying car — it can be driven on roads as well as flown in the air. And it’s one step closer to your garage.
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.
If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
Burj Al Babas may one day be full of wealthy vacationers, but for now it’s a ghost town in the center of Turkey.
In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
Imagine going on a tour through the human circulatory system as a tiny cell. That is just one example of education in the metaverse.
Stars orbiting black holes were observed to move significantly slower than expected. One explanation centers on dark matter.
One of Jetoptera’s VTOLs is expected to reach speeds of around 614 mph, about as fast as a commercial jet airliner.
One reason saving is hard: We tend to view our “future selves” as complete strangers, and our decisions in the present moment reflect that.
There is a strong case to be made that the China has moved too slowly to reverse the effects of its one-child policy.
About six million years ago, the Mediterranean was sealed off from the Atlantic, and over centuries it ran dry. One megaflood reversed that.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.