Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
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China’s dominance of the rare earth metal industry is part of its overall geopolitical strategy.
Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
Was there an intelligent, technologically advanced species long before humans existed? Could there have been a dinosaur civilization?
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
A physicist creates an AI algorithm that predicts natural events and may prove the simulation hypothesis.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
And what if both parties are skilled at mirroring each other? Will it produce a stalemate?
The language you speak plays an important role in how you evaluate truth.
Asking science to determine what happened before time began is like asking, “Who were you before you were born?”
Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.
Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what’s the maximum lifetime for a star?
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When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.
The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month.
Join the lauded author of Range in conversation with best-selling author and poker pro Maria Konnikova!
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Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?
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.
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.
As bad as this sounds, a new essay suggests that we live in a surprisingly egalitarian age.
In a world of rising cynicism, a celebration of our capacity to create, adapt, and thrive.
The ability to differentiate your emotions might make you less likely to suffer from depression, alcoholism, and anger issues.
Debate is a verbal sport with winners and losers. As such, it is less about the truth and more about who looks and sounds the best.
What happens when simulation theory becomes more than a fascinating thought experiment?
New ideas inevitably face opposition. A new book called “The Human Element” argues that overcoming opposition requires understanding the concepts of “Fuel” and “Friction.”
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
The year 2020 will go down in history as one that shook our inner and outer worlds.
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“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed,” advised Stoic philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. He had a point.