She helped create CRISPR, a gene-editing technology that is changing the way we treat genetic diseases and even how we produce food.
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A new theory suggests that dreams' illogical logic has an important purpose.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
As particles travel through the Universe, there's a speed limit to how fast they're allowed to go. No, not the speed of light: below it.
But it's still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.
For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?
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Being mortal makes life so much sweeter.
A deadly myth has been manufactured from poor methods and wishful thinking.
Their ear structures were not that different from ours.
Pencil Kings will guide you from beginner to mastery with industry-leading teachers from Marvel and DreamWorks.
A cute mathematical trick can "rescale" the Universe so that it isn't actually expanding. But can that "trick" survive all our cosmic tests?
And what if both parties are skilled at mirroring each other? Will it produce a stalemate?
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
Life is governed by unspoken rules. How do you know you're following them correctly?
Known as primordial black holes, they could thoroughly change our Universe's history. But the evidence is strongly against them.
Porcine gene edits may allow such transplants without rejection.
In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.
Writers, filmmakers, and mythologizing biographers tend to imagine innovation originates with a lone genius who has “the spark,” that light-bulb moment when the path from inspiration to world-altering invention reveals […]
We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life's biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?
Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.
In special relativity, the statement that two events happened at the same time is meaningless.
In 1974, Hawking showed that black holes aren't stable, but emit radiation and decay. Nearly 50 years later, it isn't just for black holes.
Jung thought these autonomous entities live in your unconscious mind — often at a cost.
The language you speak plays an important role in how you evaluate truth.
Such massive, early supermassive black holes have puzzled astronomers for decades. At last, we've finally figured out how they form.
Those bananas you love are Cavendish bananas, and they're probably about to go extinct.
Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023's show will be magnificent!