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Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.

Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.

The Virtual Metaverse will be for gaming and other short duration uses, while the Augmented Metaverse will revolutionize society.

A 12-year study shows that these large lemurs have a sophisticated sense of rhythm.

Studying the display of personal wealth across time can help us better understand the history of socioeconomic inequality.

Time for a status check before watching “Moon Knight.”

When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.

In his new book, “Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy,” former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang explores how media narratives can warp public perception of political candidates.

Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up.

There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe’s expansion. They disagree. “Early dark energy” might save us.

Can Detroit get its comeback right?

Yes, “the laws of physics break down” at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.

Earth is actively broadcasting and actively searching for intelligent civilizations. But could our technology even detect ourselves?

Dark matter has never been directly detected, but the astronomical evidence for its existence is overwhelming. Here’s what to know.

Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that’s visible from Earth, and then some!

The so-called “court painter of Silicon Valley” was shaped by her youth in communist Poland but looks forward to a future ruled by celebrity robots. 

Data from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos suggest that long durations in space cause changes in the brain, some of which are linked to vision problems.

Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]

Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.

The catastrophic birth defect anencephaly affects about 1 in 4,600 pregnancies in the U.S. It is largely preventable with folic acid supplements.

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.

Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.

Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?

For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.

With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.

Despite the recent headlines, it’s an extraordinarily unlikely proposition. Have you ever wondered, if it were possible to travel through space straight ahead as quickly as you could imagine, if […]

Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.

“It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research.”

Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.

Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.