Engineer James Clarke liberated John, Paul, George, and Ringo from their mono and stereo straitjackets using algorithms at Abbey Road.
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A history of injustice and the greatest natural location for ground-based telescopes have long been at odds. Here’s how the healing begins.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
A conversation with an advanced alien species is likely to be simple and to take 1,000 years. It might also be dangerous.
If you can’t surpass it in a vacuum, try doing so in a medium instead. In our Universe, there are a few rules that everything must obey. Energy, momentum, and angular […]
A true scientific view of if, where, and when extraterrestrial life exists is within our grasp thanks to biosignatures and technosignatures.
With launch costs dropping and enormous numbers of new satellites filling the sky, can’t we just do it all from space?
The idea is to study the thing itself — be it a work of literature, death, family, a car, a vaccine, or the hospital — without preconceived notions, trendy easy answers, or dogma imposed on it.
Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here’s what to know.
Adams was infamously scooped when Neptune was discovered in 1846. His failure wasn’t the end, but a prelude to a world-changing discovery.
Inspired by the group behaviors of simple animals, a team of roboticists has developed a new way for swarm robots to maneuver on land.
Monica Parker explains how creating opportunities for wonder can help foster a thriving, inclusive workplace.
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The Universe is supposed to be the same everywhere and in all directions. So what’s that giant “cold spot” doing out there?
As creatures and machines meld together in increasingly advanced forms, ethicists are starting to take note.
Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.
The outrage machine is fueled by toxicity. But there are practical steps that we can take to recapture control over our emotions.
Science and technology were making early modern Europe a better place to live, but at what cost?
Does donating relieve that anxiety? Or make it worse?
De-extinction, if it is ever possible, will not be simple.
Please stop calling our Sun an “average star.” It is philosophically dubious and astronomically incorrect.
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.
Defamiliarization is a common tool in the arts. Here we learn how seeing things from a different angle can lead to billion-dollar success.
Recent measurements of subatomic particles don’t match predictions stemming from the Standard Model.
The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
We are traveling in a realm that once exclusively belonged to the gods. Space travel will force humanity to rethink everything.