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From wearable electronics to microscopic sensors to telemedicine, new advances like graphene and supercapacitors are bringing “impossible” electronics to life.
Particle physics needs a new collider to supersede the Large Hadron Collider. Muons, not electrons or protons, might hold the key.
The initial goal of AI was to create machines that think like humans. But that is not what happened at all.
In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.
The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
A deep dive into the chaotic journey of star formation.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
The whole isn’t greater than the sum of its parts; that’s a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.
Do we actually live in a deterministic Universe, despite quantum physics? An alternative, non-spooky interpretation has now been ruled out.
A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests?
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
We don’t know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
If you put very fine black powder powder in a confined space it explodes in a cloud of heat, gas and noise.
The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
How efficiently could quantum engines operate?
Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
Realism in science cannot be completely unmoored from human experience. Otherwise, realism ends up tortured with unreal paradoxes.
Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.
Modern cosmology conjectures different possible fates for the Universe and thus for the end of time. Details depend on which model is right.
Movie soundtracks don’t just help us recall the plot of a film; they also allow us to better understand its meaning.
Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.
The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.
A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
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