As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we’ve ever seen our home galaxy.
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Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
Author A.J. Jacobs explores how voting has changed since the days of the Founding Fathers — for better and for worse.
Research has found that words are more accurately heard when accompanied by hand gestures.
Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn’s moons might tell a different story.
New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line.
In our Universe, matter is made of particles, while antimatter is made of antiparticles. But sometimes, the physical lines get real blurry.
No family is immune to money conflicts, no matter how much they love each other. Here’s what to look out for.
Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
Data from NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos suggest that long durations in space cause changes in the brain, some of which are linked to vision problems.
Based on the atoms that they’re made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here’s why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here’s what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.
Want to write a time-travel story? Do so at your own risk.
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can’t detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
Red dwarf stars were supposed to be inhospitable. But TOI-700, now with at least two potentially habitable worlds, is quite the exception.
With such a vast Universe and raw ingredients that seem to be everywhere, could it really be possible that humanity is truly alone?
How would you feel about working like a Lutheran or a Cistercian?
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
For years and over three separate experiments, “lepton universality” appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.
There’s a limit to how large planets can be, and it’s only about double the radius of Jupiter. At least, so far.
Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
Bears, chimps, or humans? A track of five poorly preserved footsteps at Laetoli has puzzled paleontologists for decades. Now, a research paper from Nature claims to have solved the mystery.
We all spend way too much time worrying what other people think of us — it’s time to cut loose.
Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K448) can help reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
One player’s pawn is another’s farmer. And at one time, the queen was a rather powerless virgin.