The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.
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Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
The secret ingredient is violence, and it just might indicate that “moonmoons” aren’t as uncommon as most astronomers think.
Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
It’s high time owners learned to speak their dog’s language.
Survivorship bias occurs when we fail to consider how data was collected. To combat this, search for the “silent evidence.”
It does not matter if intelligent life exists elsewhere. We will never find each other.
Antibodies can start forming in intestines over 10 years before symptoms arise.
We must get happiness right — even when the world around us gets it wrong.
Einstein’s laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.
Research shows how temperature can be used to manipulate circadian rhythms.
Does it have a deeper significance — or is it just a number?
Astronomers find a third type of supernova and explain a mystery from 1054 AD.
The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
Helplessness isn’t learned — it’s an instinctual response that can be overcome.
To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
It’s the origin of our entire observable Universe, but it’s still not the very beginning of everything.
Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.
An unprecedented number of new satellites threatens the night sky as we know it. Will we act in time to save it?
Giambattista della Porta’s contributions to codebreaking changed the course of communication.
Researchers find a way to distort laser light to survive a trip through disordered obstacles.
Both made monumental contributions that were far ahead of their time. It’s hard to believe, but the idea that the Universe was dominated not by normal matter but rather by dark […]
With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.