Dark matter, unexplained. If you go outside on a dark night, in the darkest places on Earth, you can see as many as 9,000 stars. They appear as tiny points of light, but they are massive infernos.
Saturn’s largest moon might be the only place beyond Earth where humans could live.
From our knees to our eyeballs, our bodies are full of hack solutions.
Millions of EVs will soon hit the road, but the world isn’t ready for their old batteries. A crop of startups wants to crack this billion-dollar problem.
People have known about magnets since ancient times, but the physics of ferromagnetism remains a mystery. Now a familiar puzzle is getting physicists closer to the answer.
Wisdom is full of paradoxes. It is one of the oldest topics in the intellectual history of humanity, and yet talking about wisdom can feel odd and disingenuous. People seem to have intuitions about who is and isn’t wise, but if you press them to define wisdom, they will hesitate.
Warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley.
An exercise in pure mathematics has led to a wide-ranging theory of how the world comes together.
Thawing permafrost is releasing microorganisms, with consequences that are still largely unknown.
Meet the clean supermajors. They have the clout and financial might of the energy behemoths that plumbed the world over for oil and gas before them. But instead of digging mines and drilling wells, they’re leading the race to electrify the global economy.
Astronomers have unveiled the most precise 3D map yet of the Milky Way, an achievement that promises to shed fresh light on the workings of the galaxy and the mysteries of the broader universe.
Has physics reached the limits of what we can discover — or are the possibilities only just beginning? Is physics finished? The 21st century is often called the age of biology. Or artificial intelligence. Or any other emerging field.
A laboratory demonstration of the classic “Wigner’s friend” thought experiment could overturn cherished assumptions about reality.
DeepMind, the UK-based AI company, has wowed us for years with its parade of ever-advancing neural networks that continually trounce humans at complex games such as chess and Go. All those incremental advancements were about much more than mastering recreational diversions, however.
The pandemic has shown how a lack of solid statistics can be dangerous. But even with the firmest of evidence, we often end up ignoring the facts we don’t like.
New research links serotonin and dopamine not just to addiction and depression, but to the ability to control genes. As I opened my copy of Science at home one night, an unfamiliar word in the title of a new study caught my eye: dopaminylation.
In the spring of 2018 at the Montreal Insectarium, Stéphane Le Tirant received a clutch of 13 eggs that he hoped would hatch into leaves. The eggs were not ovals but prisms, brown paper lanterns scarcely bigger than chia seeds.
AROUND THE world the mood is shifting. Xi Jinping has adopted a target to cut China’s net carbon emissions to zero by 2060. Under Joe Biden, America will rejoin the Paris agreement, which it adopted five years ago. In the financial markets clean-energy firms are all the rage.
It is one of the most contentious aspects of video game playing – a debate where opposing sides literally cannot see each other’s perspective.
Looking at the long views from the Hubble space telescope might be good for you. In December of 1995, astronomers around the world were vying for a chance to use the hottest new tool in astronomy: the Hubble space telescope. Bob Williams didn’t have to worry about all that.
Many of us, scientists included, harbour contradictory intuitions about Mother Nature.
As 2020 comes to a close, the solar system has decided to grace us with a cosmic Christmas miracle that hasn't been witnessed in nearly 800 years. On Dec.