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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A decade ago, scientists weren’t able to confidently connect any individual weather event to climate change, even though the warming trends were clear.
In a world where we assume people tell the truth, liars prosper. To stop them from exploiting others, here are three rules to catch a liar.
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Human organs don’t always show up where doctors expect.
One of the fundamental constants of nature, the fine-structure constant, determines so much about our Universe. Here’s why it matters.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn’t true.
In theory, dark matter is cold, collisionless, and only interacts via gravity. What we see in ultra-diffuse galaxies indicates otherwise.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
But does Amazon know when you’re tired or hungry?
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
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With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.
For thousands of years, humanity had no idea how far away the stars were. In the 1600s, Newton, Huygens, and Hooke all claimed to get there.
Ever lose track of time while doing something? It gets worse with a VR headset on.
The sharpest optical images, for now, come from the Hubble Space Telescope. A ground-based technique can make images over 100 times sharper.
Capturing energy from clubbers could help power homes and buildings.
Aerial drone footage was sent to an AI trained to track down space rocks.
What was this mammoth tusk doing on the ocean floor 150 miles from land?
Whether you write it 6/28 or 28/6, it’s perfection either way. Perfection might be a wonderful thing to strive for in life, but achieving it is very rare. In the realm […]
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Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
An innovation’s value is found between the technophile’s promises and the Luddite’s doomsday scenarios.
In the largest star-forming region close to Earth, JWST found hundreds of planetary-mass objects. How do these free-floating planets form?
In the year 2000, physicists created a list of the ten most important unsolved problems in their field. 25 years later, here’s where we are.
“Could you create a god?” Nietzsche’s titular character asks in “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.”
The history of money is a history of convenience, and spending has never been easier than it is today.