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The first nation to make bitcoin legal tender will use geothermal energy to mine it.
Taught in every introductory physics class for centuries, the parabola is only an imperfect approximation for the true path of a projectile.
A report from MIT outlines a six-point plan to usher in a new age of nuclear power.
Research consistently points to a set of leadership skills that are high-impact, difficult to develop, and not easily replicated by technology.
When plans fall apart, adaptability can build something better.
The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
FIRE is a lifestyle that promotes extensive saving in order to retire early, despite the fact that early retirement is far from practical.
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
The original principle of relativity, proposed by Galileo way back in the early 1600s, remains true in its unchanged form even today.
The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.
The whole isn’t greater than the sum of its parts; that’s a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.
Humanity can avoid catastrophe — if we look beyond our blinkered present.
The guilt-free air conditioning, called “cooling paper,” is made from recyclable paper and doesn’t use any electricity.
If dark energy gets stronger with time, our fate could be an utter catastrophe. When it comes to the entire Universe, one of the biggest existential questions we’re capable of […]
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
In theory, scientists could’ve produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn’t happen.
Since our arrival, humans have driven a seven-fold drop in the mass of wild land mammals.
Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.
If it wasn’t a singularity, how small could it have been? Today, when you look out in any direction as far as the laws of physics allow us to see, the […]
From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience “the end,” no matter how we define it.
Some microbes can withstand Earth’s most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
The Bullet Cluster has, for nearly 20 years, been hailed as an empirical “proof” of dark matter. Can their detractors explain it away?
From wearable electronics to microscopic sensors to telemedicine, new advances like graphene and supercapacitors are bringing “impossible” electronics to life.
There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?