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Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.

Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.

How can you “touch the Sun” if you’ve always been inside the solar corona, yet will never reach the Sun’s photosphere?

Human beings are tiny creatures compared to the 92 billion light-year wide observable Universe. How can we comprehend such large scales?

Can laboratories become more humane, or is it time to end animal research altogether?

NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist (and creator of the Kryptonian language, among others) studies the people who invent new tongues.

“The field is endless, but my life is limited, as are all of ours. But you do what you can with your time,” says CSO Mart Saarma.

In a psychedelic state, the relationship between your “narrative” and “minimal” selves seems to transform in unique ways.

The findings at L’Anse aux Meadows mark the the earliest known year by which human migration had encircled the planet.

We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.

The scientists are headed “straight to the FDA” to begin human trials.

A theoretical physicist returns to Penrose and Hameroff’s theory of “quantum consciousness.”

The results of a 2021 study suggest that the world’s most powerful psychedelic may be an underutilized peace-building tool.

When we look out at the Universe, even with Hubble, we’re only seeing the closest, biggest, brightest galaxies. Here’s where the rest are.

But it’s still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.

China has always been one of the world’s wealthiest nations, but Chinese wealth looks different across the country’s eventful history.

A philosophical debate spanning creation, free will, and a sneaky teapot.

AI tried to write music. It wasn’t exactly The Beatles.

One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.

If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?

We are tearing ourselves apart over gender issues, with the result that the problems of boys and men are left untreated.

Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.

Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.

With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.

We can no longer approach the news as passive consumers.

All across the Universe, planets come in a wide variety of sizes, masses, compositions, and temperatures. And most have rain and snow.

The spray uses snippets of DNA to gum up virus replication.

What if you could just grow your own blood?

Is the Universe the same everywhere? Or are there truly ‘special places’ around? For practically all of human history, one assumption about our place in the Universe had long gone unchallenged: […]

The key to its success lies not in its understanding of technology, but in its understanding of human nature.