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The paper-thin device may also someday be used to stimulate bone growth.

Put two grapes close together in a microwave and you’ll get an electrifying result, all because of the physics of plasmas.

There’s an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets, and all those chances at life, why do we all live here?

Pluto failed to meet the definition of a planet, but some astronomers think there might be a legitimate Planet 9 out there.

All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995. 

Does the voice in your head castigate the voice coming out of a recording device?

A new study proposes that Hawking radiation could be used to find dark matter in places like primordial black holes.

A new study suggests that hunting dogs’ barks convey emotional information about the animals they see.

The World Air Quality Index shows how clean your city’s air is, in real time.

Perfectionism is on the rise, and its consequences for mental health can be devastating. The Japanese philosophy of “wabi sabi” can help.

If the multiverse is real, where does all the energy for it come from? One of the biggest scientific puzzles, even given our knowledge of the Big Bang, is to understand […]

Technology will not save the world, and it is inherently neither good nor bad. But, when tech is coupled to human virtue, good will prevail.

Rich data on the global state of our feathered friends presents plenty of bad news — but also some bright spots.

It might have been Einstein’s greatest blunder, but it’s our leading theory today. One of the most mysterious components in the entire Universe is dark energy, which — if we’re being honest with […]

Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.

The puzzle of play The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas.

This everyday electrical phenomenon had no widely accepted scientific explanation — perhaps, until now.

Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.

By studying the oldest animals, researchers hope to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.

While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.

Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.

Utilizing nuclear waste converted to diamonds, this company’s batteries will reportedly last thousands of years in some cases.

These bizarre mollusks have the ability to regenerate their bodies and to absorb other organisms’ attributes.

It could have had any curvature at all. So why is it flat? What is the shape of the Universe? If you had come along before the 1800s, it likely never […]

The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.

Science was never the same after meeting ‘the particle who lived.’ Back in the early 1930s, there were only a few known fundamental particles that made up the Universe. If you […]

The inevitable long, slow decline is accelerating, and there’s nothing we can do. The Universe, as it is today, is less active, is forming fewer stars, and is creating fewer chances […]

Scientists have long puzzled over how Mars, a cold and dry planet, was once warm enough to support liquid water.

More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.