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Lawmen and outlaws were often the same people.

Hypersonic aircraft can fly at least five times the speed of sound. They would make for terrifying weapons.

The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.

No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

NASA’s space telescopes and observatories bring humanity unrivaled science images and scientific discoveries. Here’s what should be next.

Many mavericks look to Einstein as a unique figure, whose lone genius revolutionized the Universe. The big problem? It isn’t true.

Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.

In ancient Sparta, it was accepted practice for more women to marry and have children by more than one man.

NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist (and creator of the Kryptonian language, among others) studies the people who invent new tongues.

Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.

In 2021, residents of the top America could expect to live 20.4 years longer than residents of the bottom America.

In theory, dark matter is cold, collisionless, and only interacts via gravity. What we see in ultra-diffuse galaxies indicates otherwise.

Although many of Einstein’s papers revolutionized physics, there’s one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.

2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.

Creativity and achievement require balancing hard work with the restful power of calm.

A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.

Time gets a little strange as you approach the speed of light.

Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?

With such a vast Universe and raw ingredients that seem to be everywhere, could it really be possible that humanity is truly alone?

When AI eats its own product, it gets sick.

Giambattista della Porta’s contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.

When ancient humans stared into the darkness, they imagined monsters. Today, staring into the future, AI is the monster.

Your expectations form the way you experience the world.

Only humans can voluntarily conjure new objects and events in our minds.

A new study provides the most detailed look at brains on psychedelics to date.

Quarks and leptons are the smallest known subatomic particles. Does the Standard Model allow for an even smaller layer of matter to exist?

Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.

We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.

The robot can drive heavy steal beams into the ground at a rate of 1 per 73 seconds, which will help expedite solar farm construction.

Still, the author’s main argument wasn’t totally discredited.