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Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.
Undeterred by years of failure, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman proved that mRNA is the future of vaccines.
Science and technology were making early modern Europe a better place to live, but at what cost?
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Want to be more intelligent? Here’s why you should hit the gym, according to neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki.
They're not just watching you; they're also calculating.
New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023's Nobel Prize.
In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell "up" provided hope for warp drive. Here's how it all fell apart.
When the UK bans the American Bully XL this year, it won't rely on science to identify them.
Recent high-profile instances of fraud in psychology have led some to wonder if there's anything useful about the field at all.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly's discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
The stench of death is actually fairly pleasant.
In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.
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There are a few theories as to why we’ve never found other intelligent life in our Universe. Physicist Brian Cox walks us through them.
Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.
We used to think, "That email isn’t going to write itself." But now it can, thanks to AI. And there's so much more, from coding to marketing.
“I think it has a real chance to reverse motor symptoms, essentially replacing a missing part.”
The best answer we have is, "Life is matter with intentionality."
Sci-fi enthusiasts have long hoped that a substance called antimatter might experience gravity opposite that of ordinary matter. It doesn't.
Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There's no evidence for oceans or life.
When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.
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NASA’s Michelle Thaller explains what happens when the densest stars in the galaxy collide.
Chemical changes inside Mars' core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?
A more distant galaxy liked the lens so much that it went and put a ring on it. Here's the science behind this remarkable cosmic object.
A "stakehodler" has both a voice and a vote, an economic interest in how each network stewards important global resources.
This measurement is crucial to confirm that one of the assumptions of Einstein’s theory of gravity is valid.
Generative AI — driven by large language models — has the potential to destroy or supercharge most businesses. Now is the time to pivot.
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If Einstein couldn’t solve the theory of everything, could anyone? Physicist Michio Kaku explains what it would take.
The hot Big Bang was an energetic, brilliantly luminous event. Today's Universe is alight with stars. But in between, the dark ages ruled.