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A mile-high tower would not just be a new structure, but a new technology.

Yes, “the laws of physics break down” at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.

Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.

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

Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.

The ancient Greeks were obsessed with geometry, which may have formed the basis of their philosophical cosmology.

Agile learning enables an organization to pivot quickly in response to changes in technology, economic conditions, market demand, and more.

Are some of us simple destined for unhappiness?

The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.

In 1920, astronomers debated the nature of the Universe. The results were meaningless until years later, when the key evidence arrived.

From time-traveling billiard balls to information-destroying black holes, the world’s got plenty of puzzles that are hard to wrap your head around.

Why are the rest masses of fundamental particles related like this? When it comes to the nature of matter in the Universe, the Standard Model describes the known elementary particles perfectly […]

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.

A recent study used fMRI to compare the brains of psychopathic criminals with a group of 100 well-functioning individuals, finding striking similarities.

Scientists looked for ways to trigger the “build whatever normally was here” signal for cells at the site of a wound.

When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas.

It is normal for parents to experience intrusive thoughts about harming their children. Don’t let the thoughts worry you.

The paper-thin device may also someday be used to stimulate bone growth.

All forms of energy affect the expanding Universe. But if matter and radiation slow the expansion down, how does dark energy speed it up?

Using data collected from ancient civilizations across the world, researchers identified the most significant factors in human development. War came out on top. 

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?

For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?

Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.

It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.

Perfectionism is on the rise, and its consequences for mental health can be devastating. The Japanese philosophy of “wabi sabi” can help.

Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.

After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way’s central black hole looks like.

Theoretical physicist Geoffrey West explains the science behind a unique hypothesis.

Deniers will never stop misleading others. Here’s the truth. Every so often, advocates of a fringe theory — one that doesn’t fit the evidence as well as the mainstream theory — do what they can […]

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