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Explore the discoveries that reveal how the world works, alongside the technologies that extend, reshape, and sometimes challenge what’s possible.
As with any "big idea" progress means a lot of different things to different people and not everyone comes into the discussion with the same priors. Some experts are primarily focused on material progress while others emphasize the importance of moral progress. So to start the discussion, we asked each expert to define the term as they see it from their specific vantage point.
An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
Recent research suggests that Earth’s magnetic field bounced back just as complex life was starting to emerge on our planet.
The Metaverse could be the most dangerous tool of persuasion humanity has ever created.
Yes, NASA's Perseverance rover found organics on Mars. So did Curiosity. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean anything in the search for life.
An average undergraduate student in physics is better than the AI.
These dissolvable pills aren’t meant to be swallowed, though.
The separation of conjoined twins is fraught with stomach-churning biomedical and ethical challenges.
Elon Musk suggested remote-controlled, vibrating anal beads. Thankfully, there are more mundane explanations.
These salamanders are helping unlock the mysteries of brain evolution and regeneration.
Certain cancers are striking earlier than they used to.
Advances in ancient DNA analysis gave researchers a new way to trace the movements of peoples across Eurasia.
"Our risk-benefit analysis showed that benefits exceeded procedural risks… by up to 200 to 1."
Black holes aren't just the densest masses in the Universe, but they also spin the fastest of all massive objects. Here's why it must be so.
In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.
The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.
Sex can be a death trap even for modern toad and frog species.
Anything, good or bad, about Henry Ford can be contradicted — except his ambition and his work.