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The European currency features buildings that didn’t exist, until Spijkenisse made them in concrete
Ancient corridors below the French capital have served as its ossuary, playground, brewery, and perhaps soon, air conditioning.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
ExtendNY stretches the Big Apple’s gridiron all across the globe – with some bizarre effects
Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky. A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual.
A warming Arctic Circle could be responsible for bursts of cold weather in the south.
The great theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg passed away on July 23. This is our tribute.
First picture of worldwide bee distribution fills knowledge gaps and may help protect species.
An artificial island in the North Sea is the biggest building project ever in Danish history – and could pave the way for many more.
You don’t need to completely automate a job to fundamentally change it.
Prosthetic arms can cost amputees $80,000. A startup called Unlimited Tomorrow is aiming to change that by making customized 3D-printed bionic arms for just $8,000.
There’s no telling whether machine-learned common sense is five years away, or 50.
Awareness of one’s own heartbeat has some positive effects.
The Vertebrate Genomes Project may spell good news for the kakapo and the vaquita.
China’s dominance of the rare earth metal industry is part of its overall geopolitical strategy.
If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.
In his new book, “The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power,” Jacob Helberg outlines the brewing cyberwar between Western democracies and autocracies like China and Russia.
An unprecedented number of new satellites threatens the night sky as we know it. Will we act in time to save it?
Shocked city dwellers who stared at it were blinded instantly, then the entire city caught fire.
How we’re seeing black holes as never before… and a whole lot more. It was only back in the early 2000s that scientists were struggling to identify and weigh the small […]
Researchers discover strange behavior in magnetars, ultra-powerful magnetic stars.
Probably not. Even though we’re still investigating the origin of life, the evidence suggests that cells came much later.
At the height of the first wave, many people took heart from the drop in air pollution resulting from global lockdowns.
A school lesson leads to more precise measurements of the extinct megalodon shark, one of the largest fish ever.
It’s last “hard” test is over. Now, we wait for its launch. Despite numerous delays, funding crises, and technical challenges, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready. The science instruments […]
Light-emitting tattoos could indicate dehydration in athletes or health conditions in hospital patients.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already changed the world. AI algorithms have been incorporated into everyday applications—such as social media, web mapping, facial recognition, and virtual home assistants—to make them more […]