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Experts say two emerging meat alternatives will challenge the conventional meat industry.

Indiana ranks 3rd in coal consumption, but a primary energy utility there just declared the end of coal by 2028

Might microdosing LSD and psilocybin be a safe, effective way to treat depression and other disorders?

A team of Japanese researchers comes across a remarkably simple trick.

Astronomy’s enduring quest is to go farther, fainter, and more detailed than ever before. Here’s the edge of the cosmic frontier. Astronomers have always sought to push back the viewable […]

We’ve put so much together about the Universe. Could it all come tumbling down? We’re always on the lookout for the next big thing, and even our best guesswork is often […]

Twain and Tesla had similar passions and an amusing friendship.

The barrier to solar energy has always been storage. Now, bottled sunshine has a shelf-life of 18 years.

Small sample size? No underlying theory? Conflicts with all other results? It checks all the boxes. There’s nothing that’s special, on a cosmic scale, about our place in the Universe. Not […]

A new first-of-its-kind study puts a number on how political lobbyists can change the course of climate policy.

Techno-fixes will not get us where we need to be to stop the effects of climate change.

If we restrict ourselves to looking for extraterrestrial life on Earth-like worlds, we might miss it entirely. When we think about life out there in the Universe, far beyond the […]

There was a first molecule, and we found one just like it. But there’s a big difference. The Universe’s first molecule is found at last! That’s what the headlines have […]

Theoretical work tells you where to look, but only experiments can reveal what you’ll find. There are fundamental mysteries out there about the nature of the Universe itself, and it’s our […]

It’s an incredibly useful approximation. But the truth takes us far deeper. Anyone who’s ever taken a physics course has learned the same myth for centuries now: that any object thrown, […]

Microbes screened with a new microfluidic process might be used in power generation or environmental cleanup.

The Universe is filled with something, as opposed to nothing, and scientists don’t understand it. When we look around at the Universe: at the planets and stars, at the galaxies […]

Cosmologists propose a groundbreaking model of the universe using string theory.

A close encounter with cosmologist James Peebles encouraged me in my scientific career.

Charity and volunteering not only benefit the recipient but help you become happier and healthier in the new year.

It’s not a question of could they, but have they? Here’s how we’ll find out. It’s no secret that fragments of asteroids, comets, and other spaceborne objects have been found here […]

This story was originally published in Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.

A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]

While pressure to succeed is on the rise, students’ mental health and readiness for college has diminshed.

Here’s why you might eat greenhouse gases in the future.

Beyond the oceans boiling and the death of our Sun, Earth’s ultimate fate won’t be determined until far in the distant future. It took the Universe 13.8 billion years to create […]

Creeps, it seems, are everywhere.

The third in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.

We’ve never seen an image of a black hole’s event horizon before. Here’s what we’re expecting, based on what we already know. For hundreds of years, physicists have hypothesized that the […]