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Forget about the terawatt lasers we’re making on Earth. This natural one is thousands of times more powerful than the Sun.
Many beloved fantasy adventures take place in worlds that bear a striking resemblance to our own.
Three cutting-edge techniques – the gene-editing tool CRISPR, fluorescent proteins and optogenetics – were all inspired by nature.
The new record-holder opens up a literal Universe full of possibilities. Someday, even our own Sun will eventually run out of hydrogen fuel in its core, bringing a tremendous set […]
Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?
These 5 research-backed tips can turn bad habits into financial gain.
Hackers are in an arms race with cyber defenders. Will AI tip the balance?
At least 33 cities are sinking by more than 1 cm a year.
A new study suggests that private prisons hold prisoners for a longer period of time, wasting the cost savings that private prisons are supposed to provide over public ones.
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
Wireless charging isn’t just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
Negative thoughts? Here’s how to rewire your mind
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AI tried to write music. It wasn’t exactly The Beatles.
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
The replication crisis has debunked many of psychology’s fair-haired hypotheses, but for the marshmallow test, things have only become more interesting.
The digital world will always entail risks for teens, but that doesn’t mean parents aren’t without recourse.
In 2022, the probe will crash into an asteroid while a nearby satellite captures it on camera.
Taught in every introductory physics class for centuries, the parabola is only an imperfect approximation for the true path of a projectile.
The solar system has some strange stuff in it. Learning how it ended up that way can tell us where we’re going.
Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.
Are you in love? Trust your mother over your brain.
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ChatGPT’s capabilities are astonishing.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.
Remote work is here to stay. Here are a few ways to enhance remote training in a post-pandemic future.
When justice isn’t tempered by something such as mercy, forgiveness, or nonviolence, efforts to make society more equitable often backfire.
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The Google-owned company developed a system that can reliably predict the 3D shapes of proteins.
For centuries, Newton’s inverse square law of gravity worked beautifully, but no one knew why. Here’s how Einstein finally explained it.