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Science
How do pacemakers and defibrillators work? A cardiologist explains how they interact with the electrical system of the heart
Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body
The longstanding mystery of Mars’ moons – and the mission that could solve it
The two small moons of Mars, Phobos (about 22km in diameter) and Deimos (about 13km...
The disagreement between two climate scientists that will decide our future
Getting to net zero emissions by mid-century is conventionally understood as humanity’s...
Immune health is all about balance – an immunologist explains why both too strong and too weak an immune response can lead to illness
For immune health, some influencers seem to think the Goldilocks philosophy of “just...
Powerful black holes might grow up in bustling galactic neighborhoods
As people, we are all shaped by the neighborhoods we grew up in, whether it was...
The science of dreams and nightmares – what is going on in our brains while we’re sleeping?
Last night you probably slept for seven to eight hours. About one or two of these...
COP28 climate summit just approved a ‘loss and damage’ fund. What does this mean?
Day one of the COP28 climate summit saw the first big breakthrough: agreement on...
Artificial wombs could someday be a reality – here’s how they may change our notions of parenthood
Our reproductive lives are considerably different from those of our ancestors, thanks...
The climate change we caused is here for at least 50,000 years – and probably far longer
In February 2000, Paul Crutzen rose to speak at the International Geosphere-Biosphere...
Science is a human right − and its future is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Dec. 10 marks the anniversary of the 1948 signing of the Universal Declaration of...
Scientists have been researching superconductors for over a century, but they have yet to find one that works at room temperature − 3 essential reads
If you hadn’t heard about superconductors before 2023, odds are you know what they...
COP28: 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world
For the first time ever, food and agriculture took center stage at the annual United...
Do we live in a giant void? It could solve the puzzle of the universe’s expansion
One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is the rate at which the universe is expanding....
Bringing classical physics into the modern world with Galileo’s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment
If you drop a light object and a heavy object from a tower, which one reaches the...
Unwrapping Uranus and its icy secrets: What NASA would learn from a mission to a wild world
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about...
Earthrise: historian uncovers the true origins of the ‘image of the century’
The recent death of Frank Borman, commander of Nasa’s Apollo 8 mission in 1968,...