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The cathedral is being explored as never before.
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What makes some scientists culturally significant, while others remain in obscurity? Well, there’s a science to it.
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
A blood test to diagnose mental illness is a "holy grail" of psychiatry.
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.
We are about to learn a lot more about the most elusive of cosmic particles.
Temperatures in the Sun's core exceed 10 million degrees Celsius. But how on Earth did we actually come to know that?
Not everything that claims to be "scientific" actually is. There are five features of scientifically rigorous studies.
A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
Biological age is a better health indicator than the number of years you’ve lived, but it’s tricky to measure.
Theory without experiment is blind, and experiment without theory is lame.
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Steven Pinker explains how to cultivate greater rationality in today's complex world.
What do we mean by a black hole's size? A photon sphere? The minimal stable orbit? The event horizon? The singularity? Which one is right?
Speeding through the Universe and leaving a wake of new stars, this runaway supermassive black hole is likely the first among thousands.
This beautiful JWST image of Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 has been called a "prelude to a supernova" by NASA. That might be entirely wrong.
Some would say AI is immortal and all-knowing — Godlike, even.
AI helped create films like "Jurassic Park" and "A.I.", so Steven Spielberg and other artists shouldn't worry about losing their jobs.
Be skeptical of a new study questioning the sweetener's safety.
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.
Marburg virus, like its cousin Ebola, causes severe disease, with fatality rates ranging from 22% to 90%.
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.
2023 is an exciting time for the study of quark-gluon plasmas.
At least one of Earth's creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
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Everyone commits this rationality error.
If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
Everything everywhere all at once.