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The enigmatic saga of one of astrophysics' most wanted particles.

Caltech scientists explain the strange phenomenon of quantum entanglement in everyday language.

One of our great scientists, Stephen Hawking, said that “The development of full Artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human...

In a digital world that clamors for clicks, news is sensationalized, and “facts” change all the time, here’s how to discern what is trustworthy and what is hogwash.

«Science is not some big immovable mass. It is not infallible. It does not pretend to be able to explain everything or to know everything.»

Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors.

When a theory breaks, you learn how to build it better.

«ASK WEIRD QUESTIONS Einstein had a wild imagination. He asked himself questions like: What would he feel if he rode an elevator through outer space? What would he see if he chased a beam of light?»

Every memory leaves its own imprint in the brain, and researchers are starting to work out what one looks like.

The science you can come across today can often appear to be full of contradictory claims. One study tells you red wine is good for…

«The peer-review process is, in fact, designed, not to detect fraud or data manipulation, but to select for what is noteworthy.»

Never-before-seen forms and unexpected connections between proteins revealed by analysis of their shapes.

Social psychology research is breaking down the process of perspective-taking and revealing ways to help us get along better

Converging lines of research suggest that we might be misunderstanding something we do every night of our lives.

The Human Brain Project wraps up in September after a decade. Nature examines its achievements and its troubled past.

«“Big science is not always about moonshots, especially when the steps toward major goals are uncertain»

A followup to "The rise and fall of peer review”

Brain development is a highly complex process that is strongly influenced by the environment in which a child is raised, with the earliest years of life being especially important for the emergence of…

«Research shows that young children who are exposed to high quality language and more child-directed speech will have larger vocabularies and better language processing skills later on.»

Neuropsychologist Dr. Peter Fenwick talks about near death experiences and the connection between the mind and the body.

Every few decades Physics produces a fundamentally new 'thing' that changes what's physically possible. - @Andercot Humanity might have just unlocked a new achievement… A very nerdy corner of Twitter…

«With zero resistance transmission materials, there could be near-zero loss of energy. Cost of energy could fall by one-third JUST by improving transmission.»

Of all the known particles in our universe, neutrinos are perhaps the most elusive; their origins are mysterious, their purpose unknown and they are notoriously difficult to detect. You’ll already…

A year before he developed a working bulb, the "Wizard of Menlo Park" created the illusion that his prototype burned for more than a few minutes at a time

«Edison understood that success in the Gilded Age was a matter of hard work and carefully managing public expectations.»

Is there an afterlife or is this the only life we get? Most think science says there is no afterlife. But this view, while common, is wrong.

«Most believe science says there is no afterlife. But this view, while common, is wrong.»

Consciousness, our experience of being in the world, is one of the mind’s greatest mysteries, but as the neuroscientist Anil Seth explains to Steven Strogatz, research is making progress in…

How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results has started to deliver answers.

Countries are negotiating a new global treaty to drastically reduce the plastic waste that has been poisoning the world.

Like the microscope and the telescope did centuries ago, new technologies to capture and analyze sound are leading to startling discoveries about what the eyes cannot see.