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Tech designed to fuse atoms might be able to clean up space, too.
The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.
Want to get ahead at work? It ain’t what you say, it’s the way that you say it — and adaptability is essential.
We all spend way too much time worrying what other people think of us — it’s time to cut loose.
The number of planets that could support life may be far greater than previously thought, a recent discovery suggests.
An excerpt from “Memory,” a primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
The cat-and-mouse game between China and the world’s semiconductor companies is already having enormous consequences.
We all see beauty the same way.
Finding a tiny planet around bright stars dozens or hundreds of light-years from Earth is extremely difficult.
Fixing chronic pain in the body may sometimes require a treatment focused on the brain.
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
Stories of child prodigies and the naturally gifted hide the fact that success is built on more than talent alone.
Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Can ChatGPT help you power through writer’s block?
As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.
Hubble revolutionized astronomy more than once. Here’s what we can expect from the James Webb Space Telescope.
As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we’ve ever seen our home galaxy.
There was a lot of hype and a lot of nonsense, but also some profoundly major advances. Here are the biggest ones you may have missed.
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.
Astronomers have been looking for radio waves sent by a distant civilization for more than 60 years.
With a new telescope on the horizon, we reflect on the best pictures of space that came before.
Previously, only the brightest and most active galaxies could pierce the obscuring wall of cosmic dust. At last, normal galaxies break through.
Movie soundtracks don’t just help us recall the plot of a film; they also allow us to better understand its meaning.
Hubble, our greatest space-based observatory today, is just the beginning. The Hubble Space Telescope has been astronomy’s most revolutionary observatory in history. The stars and galaxies we see today didn’t […]
Deepfakes featuring your digital double could replace emails and zoom presentations.