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Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.
Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.
Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?
The night sky is already noticeably different, and bigger changes are ahead. For all of human history until the launch of Sputnik, the only objects in the night sky were naturally […]
Journalists, doctors, and others you should know.
Identifying primordial ripples would be key to understanding the conditions of the early universe.
History is not the story of great people directing the course of the world. It’s about networks. Sure, great people may have had an outsized pull on certain events. But […]
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]
The main bioactive compound in catnip seems to protect cats from mosquitoes. It might protect humans, too.
A unique exoplanet without clouds or haze was found by astrophysicists from Harvard and Smithsonian.
People often make a killing in stocks, but there are other ways to potentially turn major profits.
NASA is scrapping its Apollo-era launcher platform to make room for new infrastructure that will support upcoming Artemis missions.
Darwin was right again—sort of.
Scientists discover burrows of giant predator worms that lived on the seafloor 20 million years ago.
The idea behind the law was simple: make it more difficult for online sex traffickers to find victims.
We have two ways of measuring the expansion rate. Here’s the harder one. If you want to understand where our Universe came from and where it’s going, you need to measure […]
When someone is lying to you personally, you may be able to see what they’re doing.
The newly discovered galaxies are 62 times bigger than the Milky Way.
Psychologists point to specific reasons that make it hard for us to admit our wrongdoing.
The successor to Hubble is almost ready for launch. It’s really coming this year, too! NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, originally proposed in the 1990s, is finally slated to launch later […]
Workaholism is perhaps the most socially accepted addiction, but a new paper shines light on the serious health risks that accompany it along with which occupations are most at risk.
User-driven sites lead to user-based bias.
Max Planck Institute scientists crash into a computing wall there seems to be no way around.
The newest record-setting quasar houses an enormous black hole. No one knows how. In every scientific field, we’re always on the lookout for whatever new discovery might reveal what’s currently beyond […]
We look back at a year ravaged by a global pandemic, economic downturn, political turmoil and the ever-worsening climate crisis.
A new study explains how a chaotic region just outside a black hole’s event horizon might provide a virtually endless supply of energy.
A popular and longstanding wave of thought in psychology and psychotherapy is that diagnosis is not relevant for practitioners in those fields.
Knowing what to do is one thing, doing it is another.