The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
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The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?
The “Euro Night Sprinter” map is utopian, but Europe’s rail future could look a lot like it.
Finding out we’re not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here’s how we could do it.
For nearly two centuries, courts have relied on the subjective “reasonable person standard” to solve legal disputes. Now, science can help.
From “shell shock” to “combat fatigue,” the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
Some of the most extreme weather in the Solar System just got stranger.
If our nearest star has an Earth-like planet, here’s how we’ll see it. As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization […]
The COVID-19 pandemic is making health disparities in the United States crystal clear. It is a clarion call for health care systems to double their efforts in vulnerable communities.
Kublai Khan wasn’t the first ruler in history to issue paper money, but his Yuan dynasty did take unprecedented action to ensure this revolutionary form of currency retained its value.
Chimpanzees are able to consider the context of social interactions and can accept unfavorable outcomes — sometimes.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.
The way we imagine and listen to melodies sheds light on imagination.
Sludge may be inevitable, but there are better ways to manage such frictions in our daily lives.
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When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our “lucky stars” enabled our existence.
It won’t give you a six pack, but could improve your bone density.
A global survey shows the majority of countries favor Android over iPhone.
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
How our brains interpret computer code could impact how we teach it.
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger’s prescient description of something like DNA, we still don’t know the “laws of life.”
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton’s second law.
Science has not yet reached a consensus on the nature of consciousness.
Evolution proves to be just about as ingenious as Nikola Tesla
In 1920, astronomers debated the nature of the Universe. The results were meaningless until years later, when the key evidence arrived.
If you want to have foamy beer inside the comfort of your own home, you need to invest in a special nucleated glass.
The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is the event of a lifetime.
From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, we’re seeing how the Universe grew up like never before.
How the brain decides what to store and what to forget.