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In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell "up" provided hope for warp drive. Here's how it all fell apart.
Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.
In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.
Through humility, the old arrogance of infallibility crumbles. And in that there is genuine hope to prevent wrongful convictions.
By studying the oldest animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.
U.S. particle physicists recently recommended a list of major research projects that they hope will receive federal funding.
If life is common in the Universe, then where is everybody? Known as the Fermi Paradox, a new project may help solve the riddle.
From Hogwarts to hashtags, kids' reading habits have changed drastically in recent decades — but data suggests cause for hope.
For J.R.R. Tolkien, the single most important element of a fairy tale was the dramatic reversal of misfortune in the story's ending.
Sci-fi enthusiasts have long hoped that a substance called antimatter might experience gravity opposite that of ordinary matter. It doesn't.
By creating a type O kidney, they hope to make more organs available for transplant.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
Do grim sci-fi scenarios crush our hopes for real-world growth? Author Michael Harris looks elsewhere to unblock the road to a better future.
What do the dark recesses of the early Universe and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom have in common? More than you could have ever hoped for.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
Is hope more realistic than despair? Aquinas thinks so.
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.
In the wake of the pandemic, the crystal industry boomed, with customers hoping the stones might relieve a little anxiety.
Let's hope that squid don't evolve lungs and legs, or humanity might be in real trouble.
The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we'll someday detect it directly. But what if we can't?
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer's breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
A team of scientists hopes deep-earth lithium could sustain America's vast demand for batteries. But extracting it won't be easy.
On Nov. 13, 1946, a scientist dropped crushed dry ice from a plane into supercooled stratus clouds.
It could explain why so many people don’t respond to common antidepressants.
There's still hope for implicit bias training, research shows.
We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
On July 12, 2022, NASA will release the first science images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope. Here's what to hope for.