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From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.

Many beloved fantasy adventures take place in worlds that bear a striking resemblance to our own.

Now that it’s fully commissioned, the James Webb Space Telescope begins its exploration of the Universe. Here are its first science images!

Research consistently points to a set of leadership skills that are high-impact, difficult to develop, and not easily replicated by technology.

A deep learning AI running on a supercomputer was able to link patterns of brain connectivity to political ideology.

If you think you know what sex, gender, and “the right thing to do” for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.

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

Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.

As far as we can tell, there’s no limit to how far it goes on; only a limit to how far we can see. Could the Universe truly be infinite?

Hackers are in an arms race with cyber defenders. Will AI tip the balance?

Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.

Cosmic inflation is the state that preceded and set up the hot Big Bang. Here’s what the Universe was like during that time period.

The Mayan calendar is revered for its impeccable accuracy. Now, a recent excavation in Guatemala reveals how the system developed over time.

How one man’s divine dream became a poultry-shaped reality.

Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?

In many ways, it was worse than Chernobyl.

Taught in every introductory physics class for centuries, the parabola is only an imperfect approximation for the true path of a projectile.

Flow occurs when a task’s challenge is balanced with one’s skill.

Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?

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

How scientists found out that we live in a cosmic aquarium.

Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.

What if you could just grow your own blood?

The most common element in the Universe, vital for forming new stars, is hydrogen. But there’s a finite amount of it; what if we run out?

Just as storylines make sense only when you have the context of the beginning and the end, listeners need to understand the impetus for why the album was even made.

The laws of nature are almost perfectly symmetric between matter and antimatter, and yet our Universe is made ~100% of matter only. But why?

The most famous Hubble images show glittering stars and galaxies amidst the black backdrop of space. But more was captured than we realized.

A look inside Mindstate Design Labs’ effort to design drugs that reliably produce specific states of mind.

There are some 26 fundamental constants in nature, and their values enable our Universe to exist as it does. But where do they come from?

We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.