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Mosquitoes can taste your blood using unique sensory abilities. Can we use that to keep them off us?
We’ve come fantastically far in our understanding of the distant Universe. Here’s how we’ll go even farther. Sometime in 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will launch, deploy, and begin science […]
Writers, filmmakers, and mythologizing biographers tend to imagine innovation originates with a lone genius who has “the spark,” that light-bulb moment when the path from inspiration to world-altering invention reveals […]
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
It turns out light can not only be twisted, but at different speeds.
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
Carbonized papyrus scrolls may again see the light after thousands of years.
Yet 80 percent of respondents want to reduce their risk of dementia.
Even in the most exotic scenario imaginable, they still can’t remain stable in the Earth’s interior. It’s well known among scientists that if you submit even the most nonsensical paper […]
From ultra-realistic graphics to more intelligent A.I. characters, the 2020s will bring some mind-bending video games.
If you think it’s just three quarks held together by gluons, you’ll want to read this. At a fundamental level, the Universe is composed of indivisible particles. From macroscopic scales down […]
The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It’s theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn’t agree.
A new study suggests that a device’s night mode may damage sleep hygiene even more.
Meet a spectacular new blue—the first inorganic new blue in some time.
Yes, we’d all die. But for 21 minutes, we’d have the ride of a lifetime. One of the most remarkable facts about the Universe is this: in the absence of […]
The history of the Universe is forever imprinted in our own bodies. We can learn a lot about the history of the Universe just by looking at each of our own […]
Almost certainly not. Here’s the science of why. The Universe, as we know it, simply doesn’t add up. On the one hand, we can look out on a cosmic scale and […]
Identifying primordial ripples would be key to understanding the conditions of the early universe.
Scientists find that bursts of gamma rays may exceed the speed of light and cause time-reversibility.
Two of our biggest science-fiction dreams might not remain fiction for much longer. Here’s how 21st-century science could make it real. For as long as human beings have looked up at […]
Even tyrants and despots offer wisdom worth heeding.
The Eagle Nebula, complete with the Pillars of Creation, tells a mini-version of the story of how all the Universe’s stars formed. The Eagle Nebula, found 7,000 light-years away, demonstrates how […]
The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.
The Google-owned company developed a system that can reliably predict the 3D shapes of proteins.
The key? A computational flattening algorithm.
Among history’s many thought leaders, Plato may sport the most impressive resume of the bunch. The Athenian philosopher founded the Academy. His Dialogues are required reading at every institution of […]
The original Hubble Deep Field truly showed us what the Universe looks like. Later this month, the Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate its 30th anniversary. This photo of the Hubble Space […]
The solar system has some strange stuff in it. Learning how it ended up that way can tell us where we’re going.