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Although saying the wrong thing could often get you killed in ancient civilizations, history shows that the ideal of free speech has deep roots.
When Olympic athletes perform dazzling feats of athletic prowess, they are using the same principles of physics that gave birth to stars and planets.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today’s number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the highest honor in medicine for their research into how human bodies make sense of and respond to the outside world.
Planets can emit radio waves. For the first time, we’ve picked them up from outside the solar system.
Here’s how it works.
Scientists find two 30-second techniques that prevent dizziness upon standing.
The U.S. economy is creating thousands of new jobs each month–and overwhelmingly, most of them go to people with education beyond high school.
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The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.
We know of stellar mass and supermassive black holes, but intermediate mass ones have long proved elusive. Until now.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
These five great books should prompt us to work on what needs fixing the most in the world: ourselves.
Singapore is a breeding ground of truly green buildings.
Cities overstimulate our senses and are full of people we don’t know. Maybe humans were meant for this.
Guided by ultrasound waves, swarms of microrobots could soon be used to deliver medicine to targeted sites in the body.
All telescopes are fundamentally limited in what they can see. JWST reveals more distant galaxies than Hubble, but still can’t see them all.
Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.
Scientists should be cautious when expressing an opinion based on little more than speculation.
At just 3 solar masses, it eliminates the “mass gap.” Searching for black holes is one of the most difficult astronomical games a scientist can play. Emitting no light of their […]
Fossil Cycad National Monument held America’s richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn’t.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
What do we want to do with convicted criminals? Penology has several philosophies waiting to answer that question.
Humans are already so integrated with technology that the dream of transhumanism is a reality. Can we handle what comes next?
In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?
The system is basically facial recognition technology, but for cars.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
From forecasting stock prices to diagnosing disease, Swarm AI enables better group decisions.