Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
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How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the “Genetic Pressure” series.
When the COVID-19 crisis is over, how will education have changed? Will we have made the most of this moment?
SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?
For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.
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It’s that time of year when the hours of meticulous wrapping of Christmas toys are viciously undone in seconds by tiny children.
Released in 1972, “Ways of Seeing” has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.
There has been a dramatic increase in abuse and misuse.
The development of the revolutionary gene-engineering tool CRISPR is a tale fit for the big screen.
Max Planck Institute scientists crash into a computing wall there seems to be no way around.
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 […]
It is difficult to save a species that does not seem to care about saving itself.
Fear that new technologies are addictive isn’t a modern phenomenon.
The controversy over the universe’s expansion rate continues with a new, faster estimate.
How exactly is COVID-19 affecting the opioid crisis?
One woman’s viral roadmap from fear to learning to growth.
There’s a fortune to be made in data and silicon, and everyone is out for their share. Artificial intelligence is this century’s gold rush. Its promises scintillate in them there […]
What’s the difference between brainwashing and rehabilitation?
The ethical debate over zoos is going to grow louder. There might be a solution that involves robots.
Modern crops have been optimized for a lot of things, but not for climate change.
New prototype Petri dishes let ordinary scientists in on the advanced technology.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.
While it’s always been a boon to Popeye’s “muskles,” it looks like spinach may also have a role to play in clean future batteries.
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
Augmented reality (AR) contact lenses will project the digital world into our retinas, perhaps helping us navigate the metaverse.
Never has the bar to entry been so low and the recognized benefits so high.
Dave Eggers book, “The Circle,” uses satire to illuminate how privacy is fast becoming a lost virtue in the digital age.
A new study proposes that Hawking radiation could be used to find dark matter in places like primordial black holes.