They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
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We haven't seen a partial eclipse lasting this long since 1440, and won't again until 2669. North America is perfectly positioned for 2021's.
Symmetries aren't just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.
There are ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way, and ~2 trillion galaxies in the visible Universe. But what if we aren't typical?
For 550 million years, neutral atoms blocked the light made in stars from traveling freely through the Universe. Here's how it then changed.
A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.
Hubble, our greatest space-based observatory today, is just the beginning. The Hubble Space Telescope has been astronomy’s most revolutionary observatory in history. The stars and galaxies we see today didn’t […]
Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet, creating the Perseids. 2023's show will be magnificent!
Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.
Even with all the recent impacts we've seen, it might be more "foe" than "friend" to us.
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton's second law.
Often viewed as a theoretical, calculational tool only, the Lamb Shift proved their existence. If you spend enough time listening to theoretical physicists, it starts to sound like there are […]
Some question the ethics of sanctions aimed at cancelling Russian art and culture and punishing ordinary citizens.
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The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
It peaks the nights of August 11–13, but it’s no longer the year’s most reliable meteor shower. Every year, beginning in mid-July, planet Earth commences passing through an enormous debris […]
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One image can give over 100 times the data we now get from Hubble. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, revealed the previously unseen Universe. The most distant galaxy ever […]
Using machine-learning technology, the genealogy company My Heritage enables users to animate static images of their relatives.
In 1966, Disney announced his intention to build Epcot, an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.”
We can describe what we see happening, but we don’t understand why. Despite our vast cosmic knowledge, enormous unknowns remain. The quantum fluctuations inherent to space, stretched across the Universe […]
If you go young, blue, and massive, you top out at 50,000 K. That’s peanuts! Surprise! The biggest, most massive stars aren’t always the hottest. Although its neighbor, Messier 42, […]
The 2021 Quality of Government Index shows how much trust the citizens of Europe place in each other and in their elected politicians.
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]
The Demo-2 mission represents a new era for American spaceflight.
65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?
Carbon dating allows us to know exactly when ice was melted for drinking water in pre-Columbian America.
On Friday, the moon will pass through the Earth's outer shadow, known as the penumbra.
The new feature uses Amazon's neural text-to-speech technology, which allows it to produce phrases that weren't priorly recorded.