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Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb’s first deep-field image taught us lessons we’ve never realized before.

A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]

Is it groupthink? Or is there a deeper reason? In the early half of the 20th century, even after the discovery of the expanding Universe, physicists considered a wide variety of […]

William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.

Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]

13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here’s why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn’t how it will end.

The 2020 election cycle is not yet as wild as the 1876 election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president.

Today, it’s common knowledge, but it took scientists centuries to figure out.

Too few babies — not overpopulation — is likely to be a major problem this century.

In Louisiana, high school starts at 7:30 am. Research shows that is at least an hour too early.

The crabs’ blue blood contains an ancient immune defense mechanism that has helped save countless human lives.

Brain cells snap strands of DNA in many more places and cell types than researchers previously thought.

Philosopher and logician Kurt Gödel upended our understanding of mathematics and truth.

Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.

If a large asteroid strikes Earth, it has the potential to release an enormous amount of energy, leading to local or even global catastrophes. The strike that led to the […]

In 1966, Disney announced his intention to build Epcot, an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.”

Big dreams and big telescopes are back at last, but everything depends on sufficiently funding NASA, the NSF, and the DOE.

There’s no such thing as a miracle drug.

A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.

The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you’re doing and watch the original.

If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.

New research reveals that the face can affect the shape of the brain through a complex “cross-talk” between the two structures.

There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.

For decades people have arranged to freeze their bodies after death, dreaming of resurrection by advanced future medicine. Many met a fate far grislier than death.

Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here’s how large it will get.

You are only ever a few days away from your demise.

These Roman Emperors were infamous for their debauchery and cruelty.

Some scientists believe the lightning-produced frequencies may be connected to our brain waves, meditation, and hypnosis.

There are an estimated two trillion galaxies within the observable Universe. Most are already unreachable, and the situation only gets worse.

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