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This research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells in the liquid water ocean hidden beneath Enceladus’s icy crust.
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Is there a force keeping humanity in check?
Rhetorical mastery is within everyone’s reach — equipped with some basic techniques you can rock it like Aristotle.
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CERN’s NA64 experiment used a high-energy muon beam technique to advance the elusive search for dark matter, offering new hope for solving one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries.
Scientists still aren’t sure how they perform without those restorative Z’s.
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Jotform CEO Aytekin Tank outlines a strategy for balancing collaboration with healthy competition.
Traveling back in time is a staple of science fiction movies. But according to Einstein, it’s a physical possibility that’s truly allowed.
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The sharpest optical images, for now, come from the Hubble Space Telescope. A ground-based technique can make images over 100 times sharper.
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AI projects reveal both heroes and villains in your workforce — success depends on maximizing the number of heroes.
Almost 100 years ago, an asymmetric pathology led Dirac to postulate the positron. A similar pathology could lead us to supersymmetry.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
The Moon is the most likely place for evidence from the dawn of life on Earth to be preserved in cold storage.
Whatever your length of service in the top role, this tool-box will help you conquer adversity — and thrive.
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Should social media platforms have the right to decide what speech to allow online? Should the government?
A look back at the rise of solar power in the US and what’s next.