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Researchers from the University of Toronto published a new map of cancer cells’ genetic defenses against treatment.

It likely isn’t the rare occurrence we once thought it was. In our Solar System, there’s one overwhelming source of mass that all the planets orbit around: our Sun. Each planet […]

Men take longer to clear COVID-19 from their systems; a male-only coronavirus repository may be why.

Could we have predicted COVID-19 through social media trends?

Breakthrough technology uses multiplexing entanglement to make an ultra-secure quantum internet.

Spirituality can be an uncomfortable word for atheists. But does it deserve the antagonism that it gets?

The universe is filled with unlikely events, but is also full of ways to fool ourselves.

The system can even be designed to send alerts to employees when they’ve come too close to a coworker.

Despite losing most of his extended family to the guillotine, Tocqueville grew up to become a fervent supporter of democratic revolution.

Researchers hypothesize that these exoplanets could support the development of alien life.

Zircons in a Martian meteorite widens the possible timeframe for life on Mars.

Psychedelic therapy will become legal in Oregon in 2023. That’s thanks largely to a renaissance of psychedelic research that’s changing attitudes on the substances’ medical potential.

Beyond making up 70% of the world’s health workers, women researchers have been at the cutting edge of coronavirus research.

Once numbering just 27 birds, the global population of California condors is now in the hundreds.

Cryptocurrency “news” is dominated by enthusiasts and haters. Surely, an intellectual discussion can be had.

The eastern inner core located beneath Indonesia’s Banda Sea is growing faster than the western side beneath Brazil.

As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.

Entropy always increases, but that doesn’t mean it was zero to start with. One of the most inviolable laws in the Universe is the second law of thermodynamics: that in any […]

Dreams are weird. According to a new theory, that’s what makes them useful.

Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.

Sometimes, new combinations of preexisting things revolutionize life.

A new interactive documentary “How Normal Am I?” helps reveal the shortcomings of facial recognition technology.

Debating is cognitively taxing but also important for the health of a democracy—provided it’s face-to-face.

The future of cities on the Moon, Mars and orbital habitats.

There’s still hope for implicit bias training, research shows.

The organisms were anchored to a boulder 900 meters beneath the ice, living a cold, dark existence miles away from the open ocean.

We asked our experts where they see the biggest blockers right now for more progress. Essentially, from their various areas of focus, what did they see as the largest impediments to driving progress forward around the world and how they would prioritize the necessary interventions? The answers were appropriately varied from the philosophical to the political to the technological.

If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.

Biologists use commonly-found insects that engage in cannibalism to prove a key evolutionary concept.

New research from the University of Granada found that stress could help determine sex.