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The most common type of exoplanet is neither Earth-sized nor Neptune-sized, but in between. Could these haze-rich worlds house alien life?
Across planet Earth, dark and pristine night skies are an increasingly rare resource. These photos showcase the best of what we still have.
Dreams of resurrecting lost species didn’t start in Hollywood or Silicon Valley.
In theory, scientists could've produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn't happen.
The military is courting tech startups to help it win the AI arms race.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
The great philosopher spent the final portion of his painful life in a vegetative state. Did illness get him there, or was it his own philosophy?
This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
Traditionally, the long history of Japanese thought has not been viewed as “philosophy” — even by Japanese scholars. It’s time for a rethink.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
What if we could harvest energy from human heat, sweat, or vibrations?
Computers are growing more powerful and more capable, but everything has limits
Researchers are looking at neurons required for touch-mediated pain relief.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
Each of us carries our own version of the Multiverse in our heads.
When scientists tested this hydrogel on mice, they had cleaner teeth than most humans.
NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.
It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.
As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we've ever seen our home galaxy.
Travel half the distance to your destination, and there's always another half to go. Despite Zeno's Paradox, you always arrive right on time.
With a new telescope on the horizon, we reflect on the best pictures of space that came before.
Known as primordial black holes, they could thoroughly change our Universe's history. But the evidence is strongly against them.
From exoplanets to supermassive black holes to the first stars and galaxies, Webb will show us the Universe as we've never seen it before.
Binary black holes eventually inspiral and merge. That's why the OJ 287 system is destined for the most energetic event in history.
Finding out we're not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here's how we could do it.
It had long seemed impossible that supermassive black holes could grow to such enormous sizes. But the biggest problem is now solved.
From wearable electronics to microscopic sensors to telemedicine, new advances like graphene and supercapacitors are bringing "impossible" electronics to life.
Ever wondered what oxytocin receptor proteins sound like?
An artist’s impression of what the fully-deployed James Webb Space telescope will look like from the perspective of an observer on the ‘dark’ (non-Sun-facing) side of the observatory. (NORTHRUP GRUMMAN) […]