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Protons and neutrons are held together by the strong force: with 3 colors and 3 anticolors. So why are there only 8 gluons, and not 9?

When we prepare for our plans to go wrong, we build the foundations for lasting profit.

Autocrats like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin fear democracy, yet go to great lengths to present themselves as democratic leaders.

A part of human nature needs to be challenged and feel strong. Today, we fulfill that need with “surrogate activities.”

There’s a link between dark personality traits and breaches of battlefield ethics.

It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.

On July 12, 2022, NASA will release the first science images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope. Here’s what to hope for.

It’s the paradoxical observation that the more we try to process, the less we actually can.

The observable Universe is 92 billion light-years in diameter. These pictures put just how large that is in perspective.

Perhaps the whole Universe is the result of a vacuum fluctuation, originating from what we could call quantum nothingness. 

U.S. nuclear power plants are built to survive external attacks. Even missiles or a commercial aircraft strike would not cause a meltdown or radiation leak.

To answer any physical question, you must ask the Universe itself. But what happens when the answers aren’t around anymore?

The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.

Seneca thought the use of ice was a “true fever of the most malignant kind.”

How the cult hit sci-fi show imagines a “techno-realist” future.

Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies. 

It’s the origin of our entire observable Universe, but it’s still not the very beginning of everything.

These books helped build the empirical case that life’s origins differ from those described in myths and legends.

Under extreme conditions, matter takes on properties that lead to remarkable, novel possibilities. Topological superconductors included.

Fire-retardant gels and slimes combine the best attributes of water and foam.

A study on the “moral circles” of liberals and conservatives gets drafted into the culture wars — with mixed results.

Is science for everyone, or just the morally upright?

All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.

Effective leadership requires long-term strategy — not tactical reactions.

Generative AI — driven by large language models — has the potential to destroy or supercharge most businesses. Now is the time to pivot.

The multiverse pushes beyond the limits of the scientific method. From our vantage point in the Universe, we cannot know if it’s real.

It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.

A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.

Take a closer look at the different types of reasoning you use every day.

Embark on a journey through one of the most profound ecological transitions in the history of complex life.