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Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?
Because there’s not enough Walden pond to go around.
Though ultimately incorrect, the ancient Greek philosophers blazed a conceptual trail for humankind to understand the nature of reality.
Risqué or just risky?
Universal basic income can secure basic independence for citizens, something which modern states have failed to do, argues author Louise Haagh.
Was there ever life on Mars? Is there life on Mars now? Did it originate there or here, on Earth? All possibilities are fascinating.
2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
Leap years will only get us through the next few thousand years before we have to fix it. With every year that passes, we assume that two separate things will both […]
NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.
More than 20% Americans live in a state with access to a medically assisted death.
Today, the star-formation rate across the Universe is a mere trickle: just 3% of what it was at its peak. Here’s what it was like back then.
Every observation out into deep space is also a look back in time. Whenever you observe an object, you aren’t viewing it in its present state. When one of Jupiter’s moons […]
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.
There are good historical reasons why Germans are suspicious of surveillance.
There’s no upper limit to how massive galaxies or black holes can be, but the most massive known star is only ~260 solar masses. Here’s why.
Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we’re uncovering our own history.
One of the fundamental constants of nature, the fine-structure constant, determines so much about our Universe. Here’s why it matters.
Philosopher and logician Kurt Gödel upended our understanding of mathematics and truth.
Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life’s unavoidable challenges.
The new documentary “Make People Better” leans toward a different narrative about gene-editing than we’ve heard before.
In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
How can you maximize the amount of love and happiness in your life? One of history’s greatest scientists found the answer: with math.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Where the prime meridian meets the equator, a non-existent island captures our imagination — and our non-geocoded data.
A team of scientists managed to install onto a smartphone a spectrometer that’s capable of identifying specific molecules — with cheap parts you can buy online.
With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.
