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A gigantic bacterium evolved differently than fundamental models of biology would have predicted. Simply put, these bacteria shouldn’t exist.
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
Probably not. Even though we’re still investigating the origin of life, the evidence suggests that cells came much later.
Science has not yet reached a consensus on the nature of consciousness.
Scientists at the San Diego Zoo are on a mission to resurrect the extinct northern white rhino.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
What makes some people more likely to shiver than others?
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
The Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age teaches us about self-awareness.
Modern science progresses with an intensity and even irrationality that Aristotle could not fathom.
A new study looks at why mysterious voices are sometimes taken as spirits and other times as symptoms of mental health issues.
Many workers moved home on the promise or hope that they’d be able to keep working remotely at least some of the time after the pandemic ended.
Humans churn out about 30 gigatons (30,000,000,000 tons) of material every year.
To understand ourselves and our place in the universe, “we should have humility but also self-respect,” Frank Wilczek writes in a new book.
Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]
The ‘reasonable person’ represents someone who is both common and good.
An active component of honeybee venom rapidly killed two particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer in a laboratory study.
Andrew Wakefield turned away from science and to the tabloids to spread his fabricated data.
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
The laws of physics aren’t changing. The Earth is. When it comes to any physical science, we know that the fundamental rules governing how the Universe works remain constant with time. […]
One reason to suspect you have COVID-19 may be the order in which the symptoms appear.
Maps show the oldest company in (nearly) every country – and a few interesting corporate trends.
Enough mass in one location will always create a black hole. But not all masses are possible. If you take enough mass and compress it into a small enough volume […]
Your television may soon get a serious upgrade.
Only 3% of physics graduates and 2% of astronomy graduates are Black. That’s got to change. In the late 1990s, about 5% of the approximately 4000 bachelor’s degrees in physics per […]