Israeli food-tech company DouxMatok (Hebrew for “double sweet”) has created a sugary product that uses 40 percent less actual sugar yet still tastes sweet.
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JWST has seen more distant galaxies than any other observatory, ever. But many candidates for “most distant of all” are likely impostors.
There could be variables beyond the ones we’ve identified and know how to measure. But they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness.
For years and over three separate experiments, “lepton universality” appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
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.
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The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
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Scientists have long puzzled over how Mars, a cold and dry planet, was once warm enough to support liquid water.
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
Virtual reality continues to blur the line between the physical and the digital, and it will change our lives forever.
GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.
A school lesson leads to more precise measurements of the extinct megalodon shark, one of the largest fish ever.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.
The four-color theorem was one of the past century’s most popular and enduring mathematical mysteries.
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.
For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.
Researchers from Israel reversed two key processes involved in aging.
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Researchers detect a large lake and several ponds deep under the ice of the Martian South Pole.
Welcome to the 13.8 relaunch, a new Big Think column led by physicists and friends Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser.
Even the most unorthodox posthumous plans have their own historical, spiritual, and scientific significance.
Now that it’s fully commissioned, the James Webb Space Telescope begins its exploration of the Universe. Here are its first science images!
The Chumash people poked bits of psychoactive plants into cave ceilings next to their paintings.
And if they could, would they care, asks philosopher John Gray in his new book.
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