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At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.
What better explains the prevalence of heavy metal in Scandinavian countries: culture or economy?
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
Lucid dreamers may have “privileged access to their inner world,” with “heightened awareness… to the outside world.”
What Shark Tank pitches, Sundance films, and unusual sandwiches show us about our choices.
Consumer debt shapes American lives so thoroughly that it seems eternal and immortal, but it’s actually relatively new to the financial world.
Becoming a renter in today’s economy may be a smart decision for some people.
The airships have a range of 4,000 nautical miles, can fly for five days, and can cruise as high as 20,000 feet at 80 mph. They take to the skies over Spain in 2026.
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
If you gave me $400 and I gave you $3.15, would you consider yourself wealthier? That’s a financial analogy for the supposed fusion power “breakthrough.”
It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
Aptera expects to begin delivering its solar-powered car later in 2022.
Put two grapes close together in a microwave and you’ll get an electrifying result, all because of the physics of plasmas.
The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.
There are hints that it could lead to new treatments for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other brain disorders.
Battery-powered urban aircraft are well within the bounds of technological reality.
A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.
Meet the power plant of the future.
The matter that creates black holes won’t be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Without modularization, many epic projects simply would be impossible.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
McDermitt Caldera, the site of an ancient volcanic eruption, straddles the border of Oregon and Nevada.