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Nearly half of all stars are born in binary systems, with the most massive ones dying the fastest. It’s not pretty for the “second” star.
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury “only” reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.
All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.
The James Webb Space Telescope viewed Neptune, our Solar System’s final planet, for the first time. Here’s what we saw, and what it means.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
As AI evolves — and more robotic warfare systems are deployed — the nature of conflict could change beyond recognition.
Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.
In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.
How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.
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Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.
Earth is the Solar System’s only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?
When we’re stressed, our hormones and nervous system produce all sorts of odors.
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.
Laser-guided lightning systems could someday offer much greater protection than lightning rods.
There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our Solar System stacks up against ten of them.
Imagine going on a tour through the human circulatory system as a tiny cell. That is just one example of education in the metaverse.
Out of the four rocky planets in our Solar System, only Earth presently has plate tectonics. But billions of years ago, Venus had them, too.
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.
An upstart third party is unlikely to dislodge the status quo in the current system.
Based on the atoms that they’re made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here’s why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
From the laying out of the body plan to the organization and functioning of our nervous system, cells rule gene expression and make us who and what we are.
From landscaped gardens to road systems, the Persians were among the first to create many things we still enjoy today.
The giant impact theory suggests our Moon was formed from proto-Earth getting a Mars-sized strike. An exoplanet system shows it’s plausible.
Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that’s visible from Earth, and then some!
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.