The Ocean Current That Keeps Europe Alive Is Weakening Faster Than Expected
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The AI Protocol That Could Accidentally Create a Perfect Virus
The same systems learning to cure disease are also learning the machinery of biological design.
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The Space Disaster That Would Arrive at the Speed of Light
Antimatter propulsion sounds like the future. Antimatter containment failure sounds like the universe deleting the evidence.
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Netflix Changed the Science in 3 Body Problem
The show made Liu Cixin’s impossible universe easier to watch, but the physics did not survive untouched.
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The Science Fiction Universe Built From One Plus Sign
Greg Egan’s Orthogonal Trilogy may be the most ambitious alternate universe ever constructed in hard science fiction.
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How Do You Hold Something That Destroys Everything It Touches?
The Penning trap began as a vacuum gauge. Now it helps scientists contain antimatter and ask why the universe exists at all.
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The Antimatter Experiment That Asks Why Anything Exists
CERN scientists are trapping antihydrogen atoms with magnets and lasers to test one of the strangest questions in physics.
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The Math for Interstellar Travel Already Exists
For most of human history, traveling to another star system has belonged to the realm of fantasy.
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The Most Terrifying Part of Project Hail Mary Is That Nature Already Works Like This
What if humanity’s greatest threat wasn’t an asteroid?
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Why Governments Suddenly Care About Science Fiction
Science fiction used to be dismissed as escapism.
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