NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?
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Anger and silence are the two worst reactions.
There are good historical reasons why Germans are suspicious of surveillance.
Forget billions and billions. When it comes to the number of galaxies in the Universe, both theorists’ and observers’ estimates are too low.
Kids’ underdeveloped brains seem to help them acquire new languages with little effort.
Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?
Marketing expert Jonah Berger explains how simple tweaks to your word use can have a huge impact on team communication.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that’s science fiction.
Turning away is a natural response.
Engineer James Clarke liberated John, Paul, George, and Ringo from their mono and stereo straitjackets using algorithms at Abbey Road.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.
While ticker tape synesthesia was first identified in the 1880s, new research looks at this unique phenomenon — and what it means for language comprehension.
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
Quarterback Tom Brady was initially overlooked by NFL scouts, but he had vast hidden reserves of character.
A food safety researcher explains another way to know what’s too old to eat.
The idea is to study the thing itself — be it a work of literature, death, family, a car, a vaccine, or the hospital — without preconceived notions, trendy easy answers, or dogma imposed on it.
Gum disease begins in the mouth but spreads to the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis is just one of several diseases linked to poor oral health.
Today, supermassive black holes and their host galaxies tell a specific story in terms of mass. But JWST reveals a different story early on.
There are two conceptions of free will: “straight” and “mixed.”
Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.
A blood test to diagnose mental illness is a “holy grail” of psychiatry.
Concluding that Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.
The smartest person in the world was Isaac Newton, a true polymath whose brilliance never has been, nor ever will be, surpassed.
Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.
As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.
Unmasking a “convenient untruth” in U.S. politics.
Whether you run the clock forward or backward, most of us expect the laws of physics to be the same. A 2012 experiment showed otherwise.