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It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.

About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]

Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.

The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.

This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.

The universe is filled with unlikely events, but is also full of ways to fool ourselves.

Mixed messages and competing interests have left college students feeling lost and stressed.

“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”

Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.

The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?

One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.

Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?

From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.

Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.

Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.

Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?

Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?

JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it’s 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.

There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.

The underground burial tombs were used at least as far back as 2500 B.C.

Recasting the iconic Carrington Event as just one of many superstorms in Earth’s past, scientists reveal the potential for even more massive eruptions from the sun.

“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.

For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?

Sex, it turns out, isn’t as easy or simple as popular culture might lead us to believe.