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If the conditions are just right, some of the electrons inside a material will arrange themselves into a tidy honeycomb pattern — like... Read More

Three years ago, the Pentagon released a pair of videos featuring diamond- and pill-shaped “unidentified flying objects.” In... Read More

Science can be a powerful political tool. Consider a hearing on climate change, “Data or Dogma,” held in 2015 by the then... Read More

One of the most compelling ideas in all of physics sounds like pure fiction, but it could actually describe our reality: the idea of a... Read More

A cold shower in the morning is a pretty unpleasant way to start the day. Yet many have been tempted to take up the habit because being... Read More

In 2018, researchers at the forefront of an entirely new approach to building quantum computers published, in the journal Nature, what looked... Read More

Just over 100 years ago, an ocean liner – twin to the Titanic – returned to Normandy from the US with a very special item. It was... Read More

We are well into the third wave of major investment in artificial intelligence. So it's a fine time to take a historical perspective on the... Read More

Almost all of us know someone. A relative, a friend, or a coworker who is unvaccinated. In my case, it’s a local craftsperson whose... Read More

A globally rare variant of the growth hormone receptor also seen in Denisovans and Neanderthals may have helped our ancestors survive periods... Read More

On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They... Read More

Researchers have used a machine learning approach to identify factors that predict someone's likelihood to cheat in a relationship. Their... Read More