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Life has been making its own hard parts for at least 810 million years, about 200 million years longer than previously thought. It’s the first occurrence of what scientists call […]

In 1987, a group of researchers in France discovered something peculiar. When they protected single-celled organisms from background radiation—the sort that comes from cosmic rays and radioactive rocks—the creatures’ growth […]

As renewable energy sources like wind and solar drop in price and become competitive with new fossil fuel plants—something which has already happened in Africa and China—grid operators will need […]

More than half of ten predominantly Republican states in the Great Plains are running initiatives that reduce humans’ contribution to global warming. But policies were rarely framed as climate change […]

Inspired by birds, bats, and the Wright brothers, engineers are building the next breakthrough in aviation.

Self-driving cars could deliver us a comparatively utopian future, where trips are quicker and the environmental impact is far lower.

For a few physicists, the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning of the universe. Rather, they say, the universe existed before that point, stretching forever into the past as well as […]

While not a classical psychedelic in terms of its chemical structure or effects, MDMA-assisted therapy is closely modeled on earlier work with LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient […]

The device releases a small amount of current, so small that most people don’t even feel it. The electrodes stimulate certain sections of the brain, but not enough to actually […]