The Apollo 11 astronaut was recently awarded the Stephen Hawking Medal for Lifetime Achievement.
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The most popular books of the past 125 years, and where to get them.
Check out these mysterious optical illusions that affect our visual perception.
If we only look for life on worlds like our own, we might miss the most commonly inhabited planets of all. With all the planets out there in the galaxy and […]
It’s a great scientific opportunity of modern times, but we won’t get there with our current observatories. One of the holy grails of modern science is to find a world, […]
Researchers hope the technology will further our understanding of the brain, but lawmakers may not be ready for the ethical challenges.
Her husband died in 2009 of the disease.
Luxembourg will offer the world’s first fare-free public transit system, but is there really such a thing as a free ride?
Don’t start investing in flux capacitors just yet, though.
A new computer model solves a pair of Jovian riddles.
It should be just as sticky (or non-sticky) as normal matter. Here’s how we know. Not only here on Earth, but everywhere in the Universe that we look, we find structures […]
If you traveled in a straight line for far enough, would you come back to where you started? If you were to set out on a journey from anywhere on Earth’s […]
Unnatural Selection and the thrilling, terrifying possibilities of genetic editing.
There’s concrete tradeoff logic lurking beneath the numbers and market abstractions.
Why a 400-mile enclosure around the North Sea is not as crazy as it sounds
Convergence 2.0: Engineers are using the “natural genius” of biological systems to produce extraordinary machines—self-assembling batteries, cancer-detecting nanoparticles, super-efficient water filters made from proteins found in blood cells. Neuroscientist and MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield and host Jason Gots discuss what all this could mean for our future.
At 18 percent of the population, Hispanics account for 67.2 percent of U.S. net homeownership gains.
Artificial intelligence can now emulate human behaviors. What’s next?
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For eons, belonging to a tribe was essential for survival. But today?
This exoplanet is 10 times hotter than any world we measured and shaped like a football.
At the core of the largest star-forming region of the Local Group sits the biggest star we know of. Mass is the single most important astronomical property in determining the lives […]
Many of them are spinning at nearly the speed of light. When you do the math, there’s no other way it could have been. Take a look out there at the […]
China has long spied on its own citizens, but a new report shows how foreigners are increasingly falling under the nation’s watchful eye.
The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. One of the most mind-bending concepts about the Universe itself is that gravity isn’t due […]
Is the appendix a useless organ, an immune system benefactor, a Parkinson’s disease instigator, or all of the above?
The protesters on the street aren’t just taking up space, they carry on a well thought out tradition.
Future or extraterrestrial civilizations could create megastructures the size of a solar system.
Nontraditional education options are on the rise.