Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
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Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.
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Predicting how emerging technologies will impact industry is more difficult than it seems—and it seems plenty difficult. The reason is that we envision the future based on the present. We […]
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure.
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In the wake of the pandemic, the crystal industry boomed, with customers hoping the stones might relieve a little anxiety.
We are generally taught that there is an arc of history — an inevitable path of progress that leads to modern society. Maybe it isn’t true.
People usually think about the military when they talk about trauma. But for every soldier who gets PTSD in a war zone, there’s at least 30 children who get traumatized […]
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How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
Although early Earth was a molten hellscape, once it cooled, life arose almost immediately. That original chain of life remains unbroken.
Regardless of political ideology, one of the few things that many people seem to have in common is a moral hypocrisy that arises from a fundamental lack of self-reflection.
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 […]
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.
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No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?
In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.
The placebo effect is not the “power of positive thinking.” The fact that it is getting stronger is not a good development.
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If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
In special relativity, the statement that two events happened at the same time is meaningless.
The pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc., is the Fibonacci sequence. It shows up all over nature. But what’s the full explanation behind it?
As the skills gap grows, learning and development can help ensure the viability of an organization’s talent well into the future.
We frequently say it’s 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that’s not all that’s in the Universe.
The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?
A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.