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There’s something very special inside a proton and neutron that holds the key. There are few things in the Universe that are as easy to form, in theory, as black holes […]
There are plenty of questions we don’t know the answer to. With quantum gravity, they might be solved! This article is written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is a theoretical physicist specialized […]
The history of April Fools’ Day is long and glorious. We’ve got seven of the best pranks of all time for you here.
80% of solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere. This team has found a way to tap into the rest.
A company specializing in A.I. medicine will tell you how long you’re likely to live.
NYU scientists teach an artificial intelligence program to win at “Battleship” by asking questions.
A new study highlights how blockchain technology can be a game-changer in education.
One option was presented as the “future of how we’ll unlock our smartphones.”
A questionable new study suggests green tea may be able to reduce the effect of Down syndrome on facial features.
Understanding this evaluation process may help us create more sophisticated A.I.
Designed for a 90-day mission each, dust killed the overachieving Spirit and threatens to now kill Opportunity. But it didn’t have to be this way. In 2004, NASA launched two exploration […]
A new study performed at MIT suggests that children remain very skilled at learning the grammar of a new language much longer than expected.
A new study of the stone monuments on Easter Island reveals the mysteries of the ancient people who made them.
How much free will do you actually have? This week’s Comment of the Week is fantastic and raises an interesting debate. What do you think?
Ready Player One’s spectacular VR OASIS experience has us wondering how achievable it really is and when we’ll start seeing immersive VR movies.
If spacetime is like a fabric, and mass bends it, what flattens it back out again? Matter tells space how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move. That’s […]
The story of John Couch Adams, “the man who failed to discover Neptune,” and his cosmic redemption. Perhaps its human nature to want to only think positive thoughts about our […]
Every professional organization of scientists has a code of ethics and/or conduct. Why not apply it to their journals? When it comes to exploring the Universe, many young people get […]
A supervised learning algorithm can predict clinical depression much earlier and more accurately than trained health professionals.
This remarkable breakthrough is sure to usher in a new generation of robots.
Intelligent aliens, if they exist in the galaxy or the Universe, might be detectable from a variety of signals: electromagnetic, from planet modification, or because they’re spacefaring. But we haven’t […]
A new report finds China is now the leading nation in the publication of science and engineering research.
The capabilities on this thing are both impressive and worrisome.
A top-secret government airline that flies to locations like Area 51 is put in a spotlight by a recent ad and an unexpected connection to the Las Vegas shooting.
In 1944, the economist, physicist, mathematician and computer scientist John von Neumann published a book that became a sensation, at least among mathematicians – Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. […]
Google is closing in on achieving a major quantum computing milestone.
First, let me tell you how smart I am. So smart. My fifth-grade teacher said I was gifted in mathematics and, looking back, I have to admit that she was […]
A predictive-keyboard app has just written an utterly crazy new Harry Potter chapter and the internet loves it.
If you don’t learn this one lesson, you’ll not only never be good at science, you’ll never learn anything new. “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong […]