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We've now found many "conjoined" objects in the asteroid and Kuiper belts, including the first contact trinary, Nysa. What does it all mean?

On Earth's surface, we accelerate at 1g: 9.8m/s². In orbit, the acceleration is only slightly less. So why, then, are astronauts weightless?

Every marriage’s disintegration is marked by the same four warning signs that researchers John and Julie Gottman can spot before a couple finishes their first sentence.

Be alert and be ready to jump.

Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn't instant.

Lisa Damour breaks down why chasing a permanent state of calm backfires, why naming an emotion can shrink it, and why "feeling bad" can sometimes be the clearest sign of mental health rather than its absence.

A good decision can blow up, and a terrible one can pay off.

At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.

How do you tell when intuition is offering you reliable information?

Our ability to build machine intelligence has outrun our ability to understand it. Professor Alan Love, director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, thinks biology can help close that gap.

Today, the world's largest operating optical telescope is 10.4 meters in diameter. These 3 facilities will lead astronomy's next generation.

The artistic and the mathematical mind are not so far apart.

Getting sick shouldn’t cost you everything. In parts of West Africa, it no longer does. Muso has built a collaborative healthcare model that reaches patients within 24 hours, for free — and now governments are scaling it themselves.

With the National Solar Observatory's incredible DKIST, we see the Sun in the highest resolution ever. Its latest images blew us all away.

People whose jobs deal with actual emergencies are trained to slow down first. Here's how to borrow their strategies.

Few wavelengths of light reach Earth's surface; the others require going to space. What can the ultraviolet ASPERA space telescope do?

On a world map of lightning strikes, the world’s busiest sea routes glowed bright — until ships cleaned up their act.

Arthur Brooks studies happiness for a living, and he says the epidemic of depression and anxiety among young adults comes down to one culprit: a meaning crisis.

Between war, disease, environmental destruction, and resource overconsumption, our civilization's future is uncertain. Can science save us?

Jaleel White spent nine seasons as one of the most recognizable characters on television. Watching it back, he's realizing how much of that time he spent performing for everyone except himself.