In 2022, the probe will crash into an asteroid while a nearby satellite captures it on camera.
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With JWST, Chandra, and gravitational lensing combined, evidence has emerged for the earliest black hole ever. And wow, is it a surprise!
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.
Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.
Wireless charging isn’t just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
The ‘final parsec problem’ is still a mystery for astronomers. When it comes to black holes in the Universe, we know there are at least two major types. There are […]
A new artificial intelligence method removes the effect of gravity on cosmic images, showing the real shapes of distant galaxies.
Centuries ago, the plague forced people into quarantine for years. Isaac Newton and Galileo used the time to revolutionize the world.
Scientists look to erupted sea glass — lava that erupted in the ocean and was instantly chilled by the surrounding water — to take Earth’s temperature.
The plant-like sea creatures contain a molecule that improves memory, learning, and even hair quality, according to a new study in mice.
“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.”
Because there’s not enough Walden pond to go around.
Parents want the best for their kids, but resilience helps children better cope with life’s unavoidable challenges.
Despite a reputation for catastrophe and cat killings, curiosity is a beneficial drive that improves our lives and well-being.
Negative thoughts? Here’s how to rewire your mind
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This small-scale study may have uncovered a new link between the peripheral nerve system and autism.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.
If you said “with the Big Bang,” congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here’s what we’ve learned in all the time since.
Financial illiteracy can become a significant problem. But it’s a problem with a clear solution.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so… solid?
AI tried to write music. It wasn’t exactly The Beatles.
The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: It has a tail of its own.
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 […]
A second Enlightenment would have a far bigger task: Saving civilization itself.
Life is possible because of asymmetries, such as an imbalance between matter and antimatter and the “handedness” (chirality) of molecules.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?