Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.
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Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
To put things in perspective, the cost of sequencing a single genome in 2012 was around $10,000.
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.
There’s no telling whether machine-learned common sense is five years away, or 50.
We have very specific predictions for how particles ought to decay. When we look at B-mesons all together, something vital doesn’t add up.
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
The new agency wants to push the boundaries of science and technology.
Nagomi helps us find balance in discord by unifying the elements of life while staying true to ourselves.
Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]
A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
The four-color theorem was one of the past century’s most popular and enduring mathematical mysteries.
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
Ev Fedorenko’s Interesting Brains Project highlights the human brain’s remarkable capacity to adapt, reorganize in the face of early damage.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?
Because there’s not enough Walden pond to go around.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
Digital currencies are set to upend paper currencies, but it likely won’t be the decentralized utopia some hope it will be.
Although we still don’t know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.
An elaborate device called the Mechanical Turk defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte at chess. Edgar Allan Poe revealed the hoax.
How our brains interpret computer code could impact how we teach it.
Thinking about the problem of meaning is unsettling because it introduces us to a list of solutions that all feel a bit insane.
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
What are they and, more importantly, how do you get rid of them?