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Three years after the pandemic began, we still don't know the origin of COVID. A strange lack of curiosity has stifled the debate.
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies gobble up whatever matter ventures too close, becoming active. Here's how they work.
Methane is a shorter-lived but more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Cleaning it up could have a quick impact on global warming.
Years of shoddy research have overstated the risk.
True north, magnetic north, and grid north have aligned. There's also a connection to James Bond.
We're used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?
You are trapped in time. You never live in the world as it is but only as you experience it as it was.
Based on data since 2000 alone, global warming is still occurring at a whopping 7-sigma significance. How hot will planet Earth get?
Astronomers have been looking for radio waves sent by a distant civilization for more than 60 years.
By exposing people to small doses of misinformation and encouraging them to develop resistance strategies, "prebunking" can fight fake news.
Giving speech to the speechless.
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
The "love hormone" might be an unexplored treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
The ESA's Gaia mission just broke the record for closest black hole by over 1,000 light-years. Is there an even closer one out there?
There may be a faster, less-painful way to use radiation against cancer.
The president identified developing MCED tests as a priority for the Cancer Moonshot.
Environmental activists want us to feel "flight shame" if we can take a train, instead. But this isn't entirely realistic, even in Europe.
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.
Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.
About 8% of our genome is made of leftover viruses from our ancestors' infections.
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
We know the Universe is expanding, but scientists don't agree on the rate. This is a legitimate problem.
Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.
Antibodies can start forming in intestines over 10 years before symptoms arise.
Your very own "Conspiracy Detection Kit."
Their neurons are very different from "normal" people.