Everything acts like a wave while it propagates, but behaves like a particle whenever it interacts. The origins of this duality go way back.
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When you hold yourself financially accountable, you’re likely to gain more than just some extra money.
The photometric filters for the Vera Rubin Observatory are complete and showcase why they are indispensable for astronomy.
Your very own “Conspiracy Detection Kit.”
On Earth, carbon can form millions of compounds, while silicon is largely stuck inside rocks. But elsewhere, silicon could form the basis of life.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?
Our love-hate relationship with browser tabs drives all of us crazy. There is a solution.
Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.
People often ask “What should I do?” when faced with an ethical problem. Aristotle urges us to ask “What kind of person should I be?”
“Block. It puts some writers down for months. It puts some writers down for life.”
De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
A thesaurus isn’t to find big and fancy words, but a resource to help you find your rhythm.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
The development of the revolutionary gene-engineering tool CRISPR is a tale fit for the big screen.
Media provocateurs and conspiracy theorists insist that they’re “just asking questions.” No, they aren’t.
An information war is being waged.
Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.
A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.
SIDS deaths have decreased worldwide, but research has yet to solve this medical mystery.
The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it’s coming into focus better than ever before.
Water on Mars is key for human survival on the Red Planet, not just for drinking but for growing food and making fuel and oxygen.
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don’t affect humans in any way.
There is one obstacle that reliably blocks innovative ideas: how we fund science.
For nearly two centuries, courts have relied on the subjective “reasonable person standard” to solve legal disputes. Now, science can help.