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The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, "We were here?"
When Cameroon's Lakes Monoun and Nyos exploded, they released clouds of carbon dioxide that suffocated everything in its wake.
If your computer crashes, it might be due to a star that exploded somewhere in the Universe millions of years ago.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
Quantum mechanics forces us to toss out the old, reliable ways in which we make sense of our everyday reality.
The Rubbee X requires almost no setup and is far cheaper than a brand new e-bike.
Looking at ourselves in a mirror — or on a video call — shapes our sense of self. But what you see is not what others see.
Is it deliberate fraud or just bad research?
The synthetic cartilage was made from cellulose fibers — the stuff found in wood — mixed with a goo called polyvinyl alcohol.
No. No no no. Just... no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it's a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
Unexpected images of galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope do not disprove the Big Bang. There are other likelier explanations.
Could anyone still meet the Theoretical Minimum?
Cable news has a bigger effect, study finds.
Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.
But don't buy your own brain zapping machine, yet.
Hubble revolutionized astronomy more than once. Here's what we can expect from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Thanks to genetics and improving nutrition, denizens of the Western Balkans have surpassed the Dutch in height.
People who rate themselves as highly knowledgeable about cats are more likely to interact with cats in ways they don't like.
The antibodies elicited by the "S2 vaccine" not only neutralize COVID's multiple strains but also coronaviruses that cause the common cold.
We will become billions of people who share a single vast intellect.
Einstein's "happiest thought" led to General Relativity's formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?
Anyone up for a crisp, blonde ale?
A common weed uses uncommon types of photosynthesis.
Here’s how to appreciate them from a distance.
Argentina's black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it's not what crypto proponents expected.
Our model of the Universe, dominated by dark matter and dark energy, explains almost everything we see. Almost. Here's what remains.
"When you see me, weep." When rivers dry up in Central Europe, "hunger stones" with ominous inscribed warnings from centuries past reappear.
What are they and, more importantly, how do you get rid of them?
An interview with CRISPR co-discoverer and Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna.
John Templeton Foundation