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The acceptance of fashionable nonsense is a threat to Enlightenment values and public health.
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
Tracing the origin and development of jaws — and other anatomical features that humans share — sheds some light on how we came to be.
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there's a bright side.
Even after a decade of hormone therapy, trans women are stronger and faster than cis women.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
Many animals engage in “zoopharmacognosy” or self-medication.
With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
Einstein always loses in the quantum realm.
Venerated astrophysicist Carl Sagan entertained the possibility.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
They say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. But thanks to these three pioneers in quantum entanglement, perhaps we do.
Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.
The crabs' blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.
From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic ones, solving any of these puzzles could unlock our understanding of the Universe.
This pup puts us one step closer to resurrecting extinct species.
It's the very closest stars to us that hold the key to unlocking the possibilities for life in star systems all throughout the Universe.
Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.
It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.
Pando is a stand of aspen in Utah that is 14,000 years old and weighs 12 million pounds. Humans threaten to end its long reign.