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Human organs don’t always show up where doctors expect.
New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs.
If you think you know how an astronomical nova works, buckle up. You’re in for a ride like you never expected.
While we can see many solar storms coming, some are “stealthy.” A new study shows how to detect them.
Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.
Universal basic income can secure basic independence for citizens, something which modern states have failed to do, argues author Louise Haagh.
The Google-owned company developed a system that can reliably predict the 3D shapes of proteins.
Climate change and artificial intelligence pose substantial — and possibly existential — problems for humanity to solve. Can we?
Guided by ultrasound waves, swarms of microrobots could soon be used to deliver medicine to targeted sites in the body.
Disgusting behavior is often crucial to survival.
From forecasting stock prices to diagnosing disease, Swarm AI enables better group decisions.
When Olympic athletes perform dazzling feats of athletic prowess, they are using the same principles of physics that gave birth to stars and planets.
Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.
The solar system has some strange stuff in it. Learning how it ended up that way can tell us where we’re going.
It turns out it’s hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.
Even though the brain is only 2% of our total body mass, it consumes up to 25% of our energy.
Unstable politics and virtue signaling are responsible for creating bureaucratic nightmares.
This list of leadership training topics is designed to help businesses navigate the times and prepare for the future.
People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
Scientists have discovered enzymes from several plastic-eating bacteria. So, why are our oceans still full of plastic pollution?
For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.
“To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action.” So wrote Francis Bacon, counsel to Queen Elizabeth I of England and key architect of the scientific method. In […]
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.
More than any other of Einstein’s equations, E = mc² is the most recognizable to people. But what does it all mean?
The strongest tests of curved space are only possible around the lowest-mass black holes of all. Their small event horizons are the key.
A thought experiment from 1867 leads scientists to design a groundbreaking information engine.
Time for a status check before watching “Moon Knight.”
Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”