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What are the limits to what’s knowable — and how does our thinking about big questions in science and technology evolve over time? Take an audio journey with Knowable Magazine from Annual Re...
Bonus episode: Knowable Magazine Podcast co-host Adam Levy talks with linguists Mark Dingemanse and Martina Wiltschko about the importance o...
Quantum mechanics has always included mind-bending ideas. But the concept of quantum entanglement, famously termed "spooky at a distance" by...
Sloppy by modern standards — and maybe even those back then — a 1955 article on the placebo effect by Harvard anesthesiologist Henry K. Beec...
The fossil Archaeopteryx forever changed our understanding of dinosaurs and the origin of birds, but it took a century after its discovery a...
A key report to President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 warned that humankind was "unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment" through...
Serendipitous discoveries led to drugs like Prozac and to new insights into the physical basis of this debilitating disorder. But scientists...
PODCAST: They started out so small, one could fit on the palm of your hand, but to make groundbreaking discoveries, physicists had to think...
Digging — quite literally — into our planet's past to study its paleoclimate has shed light on bygone ice ages and hints at trouble ahead fo...
The journey to understanding these critically important molecules, in their thousands of different flavors, began with a chance discovery. T...
Not that long ago, scientists found evidence that our Sun wasn't unique — other stars have their own orbiting bodies. It was a discovery cen...
Freud thought that dreams were the gateway to our unconscious mind. Today, many scientists think the opposite: that the dreaming brain is qu...
What are the limits to what's knowable — and how has our thinking about big questions in science and technology has evolved over time? Knowa...
Memory, the mystery: Just in the past half-century, our understanding of how exactly our brains remember has taken huge leaps. Amazingly, th...
The dazzling history of solar power: Once fringe and futuristic, this renewable energy shines brightly today as a cheap and efficient source...
Replacing or assisting the human heart with a machine would save countless lives. But the quest to build an artificial heart has had many gr...
Black holes, from theory to reality: Physicists were mostly skeptical when the idea of black holes emerged a century ago from Einstein's wor...