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Physics, climate, planetary science, and the research that shapes how we understand the universe and our place in it.
In 2021, a team at Nottingham Trent University led by Nadja Heym surveyed almost 1,000 people and found that the dangerous personalities don't lack empathy — they just use the cognitive half without the affective one
At least two trillion galaxies fill the observable universe — ten times the old estimate — and most are too faint for any telescope today to see, a 2016 study found
In 1927 a Brisbane physics professor melted a lump of tar and sealed it in a funnel, and almost a century later that tar, stiff enough to shatter under a hammer, has dripped only nine times
When a seven-year-old reaches for red paint to show anger, the color wheel is not proving a hidden neural pathway, but turning the expanding language of emotion into something the child can see
SpaceX Dragon set to depart the space station with bioprinted tissue and cancer-treatment samples, bound for a California splashdown
On WASP-121 b, the evening sky runs hot enough to tear water apart, hotter than the morning sky — and James Webb caught the difference by watching the planet turn during a single transit
One electric eel delivered an 860-volt shock, the highest ever measured from a living animal — and a 2019 study revealed it belongs to one of three separate species
Beneath the Antarctic ice, a lake the size of Lake Ontario has been sealed off from sunlight for roughly 15 million years, and when Russian drillers finally reached Lake Vostok in 2012 they recovered water teeming with traces of life that had evolved in total darkness.
A mirror does not actually reverse left and right, even though your brain insists it does — it reverses front and back, creating a world where depth is flipped and the familiar face looking back is stranger than it feels
In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev arranged the known elements into a table and left gaps for what had not yet been discovered, but the detail that makes the periodic table remarkable is that chemistry became organized enough to predict missing pieces of reality
