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Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth's specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi's atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
Time to rewrite our understanding of structural engineering.
As the Manhattan Project headed for completion, German attempts to build a nuclear weapon had already been dismantled.
The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in 2023. Here's the story of its 100th anniversary.
How fast is the Universe expanding? Two major methods disagree. New JWST data, just released, strengthens this Hubble tension even further.
Smarter building materials can control indoor temperatures without external power.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it's a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
The technology could yield "made-to-order resistance genes" to protect crops against pathogens and pests.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
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Theoretical physics professor Michio Kaku outlines the evolution of computers from analog to digital and introduces quantum computers as the next frontier.
Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many "fundamental constants" does our Universe require?
The use of the letter x as an unknown is a relatively modern convention.
Nature may not allow us full access to the weirdness of quantum mechanics.
Ethicist and doctor Simon Whitney argues that society's overly cautious approach to medical research is blocking breakthroughs.
In many ways, it was worse than Chernobyl.
Two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe disagree. What's the root cause of this Hubble tension?
Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don't affect humans in any way.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery... consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
LK-99, almost certainly, isn't a room-temperature superconductor. The underlying physics of the phenomenon helps us understand why.
The visible Universe extends 46.1 billion light-years from us, while we've probed scales down to as small as ~10^-19 meters.
It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.
How scientists are hearing the gravitational background "hum" of the Universe for the very first time.
Someday, scientists could use stem cells to guide the development of synthetic organs for patients awaiting transplants.
Einstein's laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
A company in England has made a test that picks out the compounds from breath that reveal if people have liver disease.