If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.
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Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
More than any other equation in physics, E = mc² is recognizable and profound. But what do we actually learn about reality from it?
We knew we’d find galaxies unlike any seen before in its first deep-field image. But the other images hold secrets even more profound.
A recent experiment challenges the leading dark matter theory and hints at new directions for uncovering one of the Universe’s biggest mysteries.
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein are locked in an eternal battle over the nature of gravity. Whose side are you on?
For the past 150+ years, the big ones have all missed us. But at some point, our good luck will run out.
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
A perfect map is as useless as it is impossible to create.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
If you bring too much mass or energy together in one location, you’ll inevitably create a black hole. So why didn’t the Big Bang become one?
In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.
Some ozone experts seriously doubt the findings.
The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.
The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.
NASA’s minivan-sized drone is scheduled to search for signs of life on Titan in 2034.
The sonnenrad is a Heathen symbol composed of 12 repeated runes.
The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won’t be nearly so bright.
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: It has a tail of its own.
The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?
Looking at our planet with post-Copernican eyes has the power to change how we relate to it and each other.
In special relativity, the statement that two events happened at the same time is meaningless.
U.S. particle physicists recently recommended a list of major research projects that they hope will receive federal funding.
Einstein’s laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
The space telescope’s findings challenge the notion of a galaxy brimming with life.