Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we’ve seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven’t.
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A puzzling — and huge — break in the geological record finally might be explained.
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.
Some U.S. intelligence operatives have suggested foreign adversaries may be using “directed-energy” weapons against Americans.
Far from acting as the conduits of a benevolent deity, these religious leaders threw the teachings of their own church out of the window.
People around the world, mostly Generation Z, are obsessed with the look and feel of gothic, elitist universities. Why?
The Virtual Metaverse will be for gaming and other short duration uses, while the Augmented Metaverse will revolutionize society.
For a long time, important events could only be visualized retroactively through paintings. Photography allowed us to capture history as — or sometimes even before — it happened.
With the huge growth in satellites, fears of a crowded sky are coming true.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen.
For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
Probability, lacking solid theoretical foundations and burdened with paradoxes, was jokingly called the “theory of misfortune.”
Revolutionary techniques for understanding brain functions in animals could soon help us understand how emotions guide our lives.
JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it’s 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.
Astrophysicists once believed in a static Universe, containing only the Milky Way galaxy. Science definitively proved otherwise.
Can space ever be safe? What about the metaverse?
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
This map shows that the territories discovered by Europeans add up to an area no bigger than Utah.
Haunting photographs depict the dead as “still with us.”
From 1974 to 1978, the chimps of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania were at war with each other, the first time conservationists saw chimps engage in calculated, cold-blooded killing.
Brands like BMW, Walmart, and IBM are seeing big wins from the use of gamification in corporate training. Here’s how.
Ingenuity is remarkable. But these 5 exploration ideas are revolutionary. Telescopes are our initial tools for revealing and studying foreign worlds. Hubble images of Mars, particularly around the regions with […]
The gospels imply that Jesus became famous as much for his exorcisms as his ministry.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
Binary black holes eventually inspiral and merge. That’s why the OJ 287 system is destined for the most energetic event in history.
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The Universe is precisely dated at 13.8 billion years old, but astronomers claim the Methuselah star is 14.5 billion years old. What gives?