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First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link.

You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.

Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.

Reframing life in terms of death reveals some of the biggest philosophical problems with how we think about living systems.

Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.

How we organize all our digital stuff — from work research to side hustles to family photos — is key to our productivity.

Israel looks to deploy its “Iron Beam” air-defense system within the year.

The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.

Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.

The Universe, although violent, is filled with creation events following destructive ones. 1850 light-years away, both types are unfolding.

“Resilience” is being able to withstand hardship; “antifragility” goes one step further.

Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.

Dive into China’s profound intellectual legacy through five seminal texts that have shaped millennia of thought.

Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.

Einstein’s laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?

In all of human history, only 5 spacecraft have had the right trajectory to exit the Solar System. Will they ever catch Voyager 1?

This network physicist is mapping the world’s most significant data to create the most beautiful visualizations of information we have ever seen.

The cosmic microwave background offers clues.

NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.

Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.

We don’t need to think about what life is made of but rather what it does.

As Uranus approaches its solstice, its polar caps, rings, and moons come into their best focus ever under JWST’s watchful eye. See it now!

Making up false information is one of the biggest problems with AI, but there are no silver-bullet solutions.

Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 confirmed exoplanets — very few of which resemble Earth.

In the largest star-forming region close to Earth, JWST found hundreds of planetary-mass objects. How do these free-floating planets form?

With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.

Master creative thinking in 90 minutes, with expert Tiago Forte.

More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.

AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they’re saying. Humans are easily fooled.