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The metaverse may leave us perpetually unsure whether the people we encounter are authentic or high-quality fakes.
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
Memory errors may actually indicate a way in which the human cognitive system is “optimal” or “rational.”
Humanoid robots are coming, and Ameca is designed to be the ideal platform to study human-robot interactions.
Letting nature’s expert engineers lead the way.
Did the 20th century bring a breakthrough in how children are treated?
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 […]
Research reveals a new evolutionary feature that separates humans from other primates.
Bite into a miracle berry and you’ll perceive intense sweetness — but only after you eat something acidic, too.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
The ethical debate over zoos is going to grow louder. There might be a solution that involves robots.
Even 1500 years after the fall of Rome, its western border can still be seen on German street maps.
Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.
Some classic books, like Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” remain controversial to this day.
The model is almost eight hours ahead of a doctor’s recognition of a patient’s deterioration.
Long before Alexandria became the center of Egyptian trade, there was Thônis-Heracleion. But then it sank.
SpinLaunch’s launcher, which is larger than the Statue of Liberty and works like the Olympic hammer-throw event, just came online in the New Mexico desert.
Scientists successfully trained people to use robotic extra thumbs, suggesting body augmentation could revolutionize future humans.
In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
From cryonics to time travel, here are some of the (highly speculative) methods that might someday be used to bring people back to life.
Planets can create nuclear power on their own, naturally, without any intelligence or technology. Earth already did: 1.7 billion years ago.
Astronomers possibly solve the mystery of how the enormous Oort cloud, with over 100 billion comet-like objects, was formed.
The Solar System isn’t a vortex, but rather the sum of all our great cosmic motions. Here’s how we move through space.
A Nazi institute produced a Bible without the Old Testament that portrayed Jesus as an Aryan hero fighting Jewish people.
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
People tend to reflexively assume that fun events – like vacations – will go by really quickly.
Volunteering can feel great and make good things happen. Now we know it promotes your health too.
Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.