Milestone: Black hole radiation theorizedDate: March 1, 1974Where: Cambridge, EnglandWho: Stephen HawkingIn 1974, a brilliant 32-year-old physicist published a not-quite-two-page…
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March is a great month to step outside and look up. As winter gives way to spring, the night sky…
Science news this week was filled with stunning space discoveries, with the largest map of the chaotic gas clouds at…
In 1774, British physician-scientist Charles Blagden received an unusual invitation from a fellow physician: to spend time in a small…
Organic molecules discovered within a stone on Mars cannot be fully explained by nonbiological processes, and it’s “reasonable to hypothesize”…
When artificial intelligence (AI) is allowed to behave more like a human communicator, it becomes a more effective debate partner…
Humans first developed complex and information-dense writing around 3000 B.C., when the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) invented cuneiform…
In 1957, an amateur archaeologist working at a Native American site in Maine discovered a perplexing treasure: a 900-year-old silver…
DNA is often considered the ultimate indicator of our identity — a foolproof way to determine our origins and how…
For decades, scientists have delved into the genetic causes of disease by studying patients with those diseases and their families,…