Three cutting-edge techniques – the gene-editing tool CRISPR, fluorescent proteins and optogenetics – were all inspired by nature.
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The first “running machine” — later known as the bicycle — symbolizes a key design idea.
“In order to seek truth,” Rene Descartes once wrote, “it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
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If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
AI was the most divisive topic in a recent predictions tournament.
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
He couldn’t identify the numbers 2 through 9. But strangely, he could still see ones and zeros.
Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?
The stars stood no chance against the more-massive black holes.
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
Millions of people have had a near-death experience, and it often leads them to believe in an afterlife. Does this count as good proof?
82% of professionals say they’d take a lower-paying job to work for an organization with more ethical business practices. This is just one of the reasons to offer ethics training for employees.
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.
A new study says the reason cave paintings are in such remote caverns was the artists’ search for transcendence.
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Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?
Epigenetic entropy shows that you can’t fully understand cancer without mathematics.
Cosmology is unlike other sciences. When our view of the Universe changes, so does our understanding of philosophy and science itself.
The last image puts it all in perspective. Compared to what we find in our Solar System, galaxies are truly enormous. The Sun may be 109 times the diameter of […]
Quantum physics is starting to show up in unexpected places. Indeed, it is at work in animals, plants, and our own bodies.
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
Hubble, our greatest space-based observatory today, is just the beginning. The Hubble Space Telescope has been astronomy’s most revolutionary observatory in history. The stars and galaxies we see today didn’t […]
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The Multiverse fuels some of the 21st century’s best fiction stories. But its supporting pillars are on extremely stable scientific footing.
Today’s popular weight-loss drugs could soon be joined by brain stimulation and gene therapies.