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When science is a source of spirituality in people’s lives, they feel happy and engaged.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
There is no such thing as a void in the Universe.
The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.
A recent study sheds light on the evolutionary history of rhinoceroses and their remarkably low levels of genetic diversity.
When you don’t have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
Science isn’t synonymous with technology; it’s about a way of thinking.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
Bad news: Sleeping in on the weekends probably won’t cut it.
Beer’s flavor begins to change as soon as it is packaged. Are cans or bottles better at preserving flavor?
TikTok and its allies won’t go down without a legal fight.
Binary black holes eventually inspiral and merge. That’s why the OJ 287 system is destined for the most energetic event in history.
To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.
As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery… consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests?
Schopenhauer and Freud can help teams navigate the most prickly of collaboration problems.
We knew we’d find galaxies unlike any seen before in its first deep-field image. But the other images hold secrets even more profound.
Nevada has the fewest number of native-born citizens.
Astronomers in 2017 caught an image of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy far, far away. Doing it in our own galaxy is a huge milestone.
The odds are slim, but the consequences would be devastating. Here’s what would happen, plus how to avoid it.
Nobody likes the uneasy feeling of being watched — so can there be any workplace benefit to the all-seeing eye?
Roger Babson wanted a “partial insulator, reflector, or absorber of gravity” — something, anything, that would stop or dampen it.
The fear of deep bodies of water may be evolutionarily ingrained.
Chemists could replace bubbling flasks with tumbling ball mills.
We don’t know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future.
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
Here’s what recent DESI measurements suggest — and why it’s too early to update conventional predictions about the Universe’s distant future.