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Sunita Sah hopes that by redefining defiance, we can build societies that allow people to live more authentic lives.

The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.

Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.

The deep-thinking oddballs of West Coast cycle racing valued mid-ride marijuana over sports science.

Many galaxies really are ultra-distant, but some are just intrinsically red or dusty. Only with spectroscopy can JWST tell which is which.

Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.

Why Netflix adopted the “No Brilliant Asshole” rule — and how to make sure bullies don’t destroy teams.

Earth, the only rocky planet with a large, massive satellite, is greatly affected by the Moon. Destroying it would cause 7 major changes.

Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is both completely normal and absolutely remarkable in a number of ways. Here’s the story of our cosmic home.

If we’re going to discuss oceanography and climate change, we should at least identify the currents correctly.

While weltschmerz — literally “world-pain” — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.

Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.

Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.

Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.

It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.

The Apple Watch could soon take the pain out of monitoring blood sugar levels.

Is it ever possible for God to violate the laws of nature?

They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.

With the invention of the leap year, the Julian calendar was used worldwide for over 1500 years. Over time, it led only to catastrophe.

Before Constantine received his history-defining vision, a pagan Sun god paved the way for Jesus Christ’s triumphal entry into the Eternal City.

Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.

To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.

It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.

From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.

Today, the F-word is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which it hasn’t seen since, well, the Renaissance.

Human beings are descendants of these early tetrapods – at least those who made a new life on land.

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, despite expectations, revealed a null result: no effect. The implications were revolutionary.

Is a repressed memory always so bad?

Although many of Einstein’s papers revolutionized physics, there’s one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.