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A new study shows how poor children are negatively impacted neurologically.

The electric car manufacturer says updates to its battery design and manufacturing process will help lower production costs.

Astronaut Garrett Reisman talks NASA, SpaceX, and where we’re headed next.

The last image puts it all in perspective. Compared to what we find in our Solar System, galaxies are truly enormous. The Sun may be 109 times the diameter of […]

A new study of nurses shows the importance of sleep—and staying aware on the job.

Aligning your goals with deeply held values produces better results—in your career and life.

In order, they go: hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, neon, nitrogen, magnesium, silicon, iron, sulfur. Here’s how we made them. Everything found on planet Earth is composed of the same ingredients: atoms. […]

Scientists have detected within the Venusian atmosphere a chemical known to be a byproduct of life.

By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.

Synchronous movement seems to help us form cohesive groups by shifting our thinking from “me” to “we.”

Younger Americans support expanding the Supreme Court and serious political reforms, says new poll.

With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.

Despite warnings and protestations from astronomers and skywatchers, Starlink is moving fast and breaking things. In May of this year, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the first group of its new satellite […]

Known as primordial black holes, they could thoroughly change our Universe’s history. But the evidence is strongly against them.

See the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves.

No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.

Jonathan Berman wants us to have better dialogues.

Many still cling to the idea that we live in a deterministic Universe, despite the nature of quantum physics. Now, the “least spooky” interpretation no longer works.

A gigantic star makes off during an eight-year gap in observations.

Could this finally be the clue we’ve hoped for in uncovering the truth about dark matter? In the physical sciences, theory and observation are supposed to work hand-in-hand. Theorists work out […]

The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton’s laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn’t.

If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves decay? There are certain things in the Universe that, if you leave them alone for long enough, they’ll eventually decay away. […]

If you want to know what the Universe is like, you have to look at it in the right way. Only by observing it can we know what the Universe is […]

There’s a big difference between the notions of ‘false vacuum’ and ‘true vacuum’ states. Here’s why we don’t want to live in the former.

UNC School of Medicine researchers identified the amino acid responsible for the trip.

A decade ago, we didn’t know if dwarf galaxies had black holes. Today, half of the ones we see aren’t where we expected. Normally, galaxies have supermassive black holes millions […]

Crocodiles have been called “living fossils.” That is, the species has remained unaltered for vast periods of geologic time. They’ve become so perfectly adapted to their ecological niche that millions […]

Here’s what the world’s space agencies hope to learn about the Red planet.

Noise pollution is terrible for our health, yet we don’t discuss it often enough.

Proteus could someday be used to create extremely strong and lightweight armor and locks.