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The newest record-setting quasar houses an enormous black hole. No one knows how. In every scientific field, we’re always on the lookout for whatever new discovery might reveal what’s currently beyond […]
In the mid-20th century, ‘physical cosmology’ was considered an oxymoronic joke. Today, it’s Nobel-winning science. Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You’d want to find […]
Clusters of bot boats may offer cities dynamic solutions to rising waters.
Your morning coffee is good for you – if you drink it at the right time.
A new study lays out the case for the damaging effects of stress on orcas living in tanks.
A NASA-sponsored competition asks participants to improve the design of a bucket drum for moon excavation.
Is capitalism naturally unempathetic?
Our remarkable olfactory senses are modeled in a new research chip.
Avi Loeb says it’s aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here’s why. In 2017, an astronomical event occurred that was unlike any other: for the first time, we observed an object that […]
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Ever smell a durian fruit? Don’t. Think of it as nature’s stinky battery.
It’s that the Universe can be understood at all. Don’t deafen yourself to its lessons. In a nutshell, 2020 has been a unique year in human history. For the first time […]
Researchers have recently discovered two of the genes that govern this weird-looking salamander’s ability to regenerate limbs, eyes, and even its brain.
There’s a flowchart if you aren’t sure. It’s a situation that comes up all too frequently: an expert in their field publicly states a conclusion that is thoroughly accepted by the […]
Study finds that a colony’s exposure to pesticides impairs offspring.
When we split something into its most fundamental, indivisible components, are we truly seeing something that’s point-like, or is there a finite minimum size? Imagine that you wanted to know what […]
When you look at the Universe in an entirely new way, you sometimes find what you could never have anticipated. Almost exactly one year ago today, the Event Horizon Telescope […]
A single typo in the “dark matter” of the genome drives multiple types of cancer.
Maybe 100% of stars don’t have planets, after all. When stars form in the Universe, they’re created in giant bursts. A stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy […]
“We seem to be racing toward a new configuration of government and industry without having fully thought through all of the implications,” Steve Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, told MIT Technology Review.
If an AT-AT walker (or something even larger) wanted to walk across a frozen lake, how thick would the ice have to be? Each winter, one of the most spectacular phenomena […]
Insomnia is the product of mental or emotional pressure.
And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]
Today, a quickly emerging set of technologies known as bioprinting is poised to push the boundaries further.
A gift guide of the hottest educational toys for your budding scientist, engineer, or mathematician.
A critical thinking framework developed by psychologists can help teach mental skills necessary for our times.
Was the hamburger menu always so ubiquitous?
A new study found that smoking cannabis at a young age is associated with reduced brain volume in a region responsible for processing emotions on people’s faces.