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- Sep 15, 2026
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Will we ever know how life began? (opens the original)
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Scientists disagree on how biology got started and on whether we can ever know for sure By Sarah Scoles edited by Clara Moskowitz This article is part of a special package on “Impossible Questions”—scientific quandaries that may never get definitive answers. Read the rest of the collection here. In a laboratory at McMaster University in Ontario, a device that seems almost alive glows purple as it churns through its work. Atop a boxy base that resembles a small kitchen island, a windowed hemisphe
The questions science may never answer (opens the original)
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Will some of the biggest mysteries in science remain forever unsolved? By Sarah Scoles edited by Clara Moskowitz This article is part of a special package on “Impossible Questions”—scientific quandaries that may never get definitive answers. Read the rest of the collection here. Science, at its best, is a striving toward truth. It is not, although we often think of it as such, the search for absolute truth. It’s more a process of systematically gathering and interpreting data about the universe
The Pentagon is testing lasers and microwaves to stop drone swarms (opens the original)
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The Pentagon is testing lasers and microwaves to stop drone swarms After decades of hype, directed-energy weapons may offer the U.S. military a cheaper answer to the expensive problem of stopping drones In June, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. This stretch of desert had been a proving ground for barely a week when, in 1945, Manhattan Project scientists detonated the first atomic bomb at its Trinity Site, releasing the destructive energy of
Golden Dome could require thousands of missile interceptors in orbit—and companies are scrambling to build them (opens the original)
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The Pentagon wants thousands of missile interceptors in orbit Golden Dome’s most audacious element would require a vast constellation of weapons that does not yet exist. Defense companies are already lining up to build it Somewhere in the world, a missile’s engines ignite, and it lifts toward the sky. Somewhere above the world, satellites sense its launch. They, in turn, send out an alert, along with information about the missile’s path. Almost instantly an interceptor in orbit—essentially a big
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