What we call “basic research” is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.
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In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.
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Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.
Here’s the case for why science can’t keep ignoring human experience.
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Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.
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All telescopes are fundamentally limited in what they can see. JWST reveals more distant galaxies than Hubble, but still can’t see them all.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is both completely normal and absolutely remarkable in a number of ways. Here’s the story of our cosmic home.
Science cannot help us understand or describe first-person experience. Zen koans are a powerful form for helping us reach that description.
Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.
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.
From time-traveling billiard balls to information-destroying black holes, the world’s got plenty of puzzles that are hard to wrap your head around.
2023 will see an “arms race” in mixed reality hardware and software. This truly will revolutionize our society.
The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, despite expectations, revealed a null result: no effect. The implications were revolutionary.
The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here’s how.
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.
Dive into China’s profound intellectual legacy through five seminal texts that have shaped millennia of thought.
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don’t physically exist. Is he right?