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Success isn’t about finding one great way to achieve something and sticking with it. It’s about looking at all the possible options and computing success through analysis.

The road from dropout to billionaire is more of a detour than a highway.

They have more casual sex, too.

A blank canvas for generations of science.

Other forms of expression—nude dancing, flag burning, donating to political campaigns—are protected by the First Amendment. Why not computer code?

It’s often said that every element was made in a star, but there’s more to it than that.

Not only can’t astronomers and planetary scientists agree, but the IAU made it worse for everyone. If you were alive in 2006, you likely remember a momentous event in astronomy: […]

Happy birthday to Pluto, discovered on this day in 1930. Pluto, first discovered in 1930, was no more than a distant dot in our most powerful telescopes. Clyde Tombaugh’s original images […]

Experiments show brain-to-brain collaboration.

An unbelievably clear look at what goes on inside our bodies.

A clash of mysteries.

A new study shows how machine-learning methods could examine your friends’ past tweets to accurately predict your future behavior online.

That’s a sharp increase from the 1960s when it took the same share of scientists an average of 35 years to drop out of academia.

Even when they suffer costs in doing so.

On Tuesday, eight science-credentialed candidates were elected to the House of Representatives.

Microbes screened with a new microfluidic process might be used in power generation or environmental cleanup.

Please tell me that Internet trolls didn’t just get a huge leg up.

Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans.

Scientists discovered microbes that have lived on Earth for millions of years.

 Any music lover who subscribes to a streaming-music service such as Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, or the like has entered into a bargain that represents a profound shift in the […]

Researchers at Princeton engineer a new type of diamond with silicon and boron that solves past issues with quantum data storage and retrieval.

The National Institutes of Health recently began a $300-million study to examine the effects of screen time on developing brains.

Inconceivable wealth. And a few lessons in how not to get rich, too.

 More and more companies are incorporating machine-based intelligence in decision-making processes. Computers are great at numbers and finding meaningful trends in big data, so this makes sense. On the other […]

The Tesla CEO said the Hardware 3 upgrade has “1000 percent more capability” than the current hardware.

With a new data run coming in 2019 at unprecedented sensitivity, we might finally get our answers. Over the past three years, LIGO discovered ten independent instances of merging black holes […]

Researchers at MIT have created what may be the smallest robots yet that can sense their environment, store data, and even carry out computational tasks. These nanorobots are the size of a human cell and they could flow through intestines or pipelines to detect problems.

And what do we still have left to learn? The original idea of a black hole goes all the way back to 1783, when Cambridge scientist John Michell recognized that a […]

Money may not buy you love, but it won’t break your heart either.

From psychology to neuroscience, what we believe is not nearly as relevant as why we do.