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2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
This is the latest study to confirm that the brain does not fully mature until at least the third decade of life.
Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.
London’s busiest airport seems to be rebounding well from the pandemic — but Istanbul has better prospects in the long run.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is both completely normal and absolutely remarkable in a number of ways. Here’s the story of our cosmic home.
“This will be one of the most important datasets since the mapping of the Human Genome.”
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The first elements in the Universe formed just minutes after the Big Bang, but it took hundreds of thousands of years before atoms formed.
No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?
Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.
On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?
From quarks and gluons to giant galaxy clusters, everything that exists in our Universe is determined by what is (and isn’t) bound together.
In the Saudi Arabian desert, the Al Naslaa rock formation looks completely unnatural. Its perfectly vertical split remains a mystery.
The visible Universe extends 46.1 billion light-years from us, while we’ve probed scales down to as small as ~10^-19 meters.
Temperatures in the Sun’s core exceed 10 million degrees Celsius. But how on Earth did we actually come to know that?
Since 1962, humanity has been sending messages into space with the intent to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Are those efforts worth the risks?
The hot Big Bang is often touted as the beginning of the Universe. But there’s one piece of evidence we can’t ignore that shows otherwise.
There’s nothing like the end of the world to make you a philosopher.
Long thought incapable of regenerating, we now know that brain cells can grow and reorganize. That, it turns out, is a mixed blessing.
Why I was prepared to hate The Structure of Scientific Revolutions but ended up loving it.
The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.
For every proton, there were over a billion others that annihilated away with an antimatter counterpart. So where did all that energy go?
Finding it at all was a happy accident. Examining it further may help unlock the secrets hiding within the earliest galaxies of all.
Even after the first stars form, those overdense regions gravitationally attract matter and also merge. Here’s how they grow into galaxies.
Patients with amygdala damage rejected the widely accepted answer to the infamous “trolley problem,” saying that it “hurts too much.”