With its very first deep-field view of the Universe now released, the James Webb Space Telescope has shown us our cosmos as never before.
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The matter that creates black holes won’t be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
Your bites will heal, but will you ever sleep well again after an infestation of bloodsucking parasites?
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”
The meaning of the cryptic text has eluded scholars for centuries. Their latest efforts include computational analyses seeking new insights into the medieval enigma.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Even though no human has stepped foot on the Moon’s surface in 50 years, the evidence of our presence there remains unambiguous.
For the cosmos, it’s all too easy being green. Stars come in a wide variety of colors, but never green. Stars form in a wide variety of sizes, colors and masses, […]
The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in 2023. Here’s the story of its 100th anniversary.
The Rijksmuseum employed an AI to repaint lost parts of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch.” Here’s how they did it.
LK-99, almost certainly, isn’t a room-temperature superconductor. The underlying physics of the phenomenon helps us understand why.
The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
Even lifelong technologists and AI researchers like myself were genuinely surprised by the speed and impact of generative AI.
Long assumed to be a devoted vegetarian, ancient sloths were fine with some meat.
It’s been precisely 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang occurred. Here’s how we know.
According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.
The engineer working on Google’s AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
A group of prominent scientists shares how research has changed them.
What makes a face trustworthy, anyway?
All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be nearly 100% efficient.
The sharpest optical images, for now, come from the Hubble Space Telescope. A ground-based technique can make images over 100 times sharper.
They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.
A new study enhanced color vision for individuals with the most common type of red-green color blindness.
These bizarre mollusks have the ability to regenerate their bodies and to absorb other organisms’ attributes.