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Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.

Aptera expects to begin delivering its solar-powered car later in 2022.

Speeding through the Universe and leaving a wake of new stars, this runaway supermassive black hole is likely the first among thousands.

A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.

The Copernican principle states that Earth is an ordinary planet, but that does not mean that life is ordinary in the universe.

Yoga is more than just standing on your head. It’s about uniting with the divine.

Are the stellar remnants in our cosmic backyard actually our parents and grandparents?

At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.

Never stop looking at the skies in wonder.

Everything everywhere all at once.

There really might be extraterrestrials out there, attempting to make contact. Here’s how science, not fiction, is attempting to find them.

If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.

The search for worlds outside our solar system has just turned up a planet, TOI-2257 b, with a truly extreme orbit.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

Here’s what the weather phenomenon baking large parts of the country actually means.

Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.

Every star we can see, including our sun, was born in one of these violent clouds.

This storm rained electrons, shifted energy from the sun’s rays to the magnetosphere, and went unnoticed for a long time.

Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.

But it’s still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.

We’re all entitled to our own opinions, no matter how ill-informed they are. But facts are facts; we can’t just choose the ones we prefer.

Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.

While we can see many solar storms coming, some are “stealthy.” A new study shows how to detect them.

Seven years ago, an outburst in a distant galaxy brightened and faded away. Afterward, a new supermassive black hole jet emerged, but how?

The electromagnetic force can be attractive, repulsive, or “bendy,” but is always mediated by the photon. How does one particle do it all?

A philosophical debate spanning creation, free will, and a sneaky teapot.

Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?

The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.

Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.

Just like with AI, people worried about job security and the spread of disinformation. Machines were destroyed and book merchants were chased out of town.