Good disagreement is central to progress.
Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates (sometimes counterintuitively) how the best partners aren’t echo chambers — and how great research teams, relationships and businesses allow people to deeply disagree.
An astrobiologist, two comedians and an urge to communicate science to the public walked into a bar… well actually, they met up for dinner.
Wonder got humans to the surface of another planet. Watch the Perseverance Rover land on Mars.
Listen to the reaction of these scientists when they find a bigfin squid – a deep sea creature rarely sighted.
Watch this great construction of how Earth’s landscape has changed over the past 100 million years and read about the science behind creating it
An artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot can write such convincing fake research-paper abstracts that scientists are often unable to spot them.
Lots of invertebrates feed on slime molds; lots of slime molds feed on other organisms. Sounds gross but the macro photos are beautiful.
A clever visualisation that demonstrates the speed of light, by putting it into context.
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