Scientists are highly skeptical, but such “cosmic wanderlust” isn’t a bad thing.
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Co-ops are more pervasive than you think. They just suffer from a marketing problem.
We know the dangers of too little sleep. Now for the other side of the story.
When it comes to the Solar System, all we have left are the survivors. At last, that might be enough to know what happened 4.5 billion years ago. We know what […]
Some galaxies might not have any dark matter. Here’s why you should care. There are two assumptions that everyone makes about the Universe for extremely good reasons, but they might not […]
The vast emptiness of space isn’t really so empty: It’s filled with space goop made of greasy carbon molecules.
The ability to instantaneously jump from one location in space to another clearly violates the laws of physics. Or does it? There are a few rules in the Universe that seem […]
They actually have a quasicrystal-like structure
An MIT model predicted when and how human civilization would end. Hint: it’s soon.
Thanks to genetic engineering, a child can now have three parents. But is it a good idea?
Climate change is a dire threat, perhaps it is time to put the people who created and denied the problem on trial?
Cash currency goes back a long time – 40,000 years.
While shuffling off their mortal coils, these giants of thought had some parting words.
In order to build a second Earth, we need to look at how the first one was made.
If the Breakthrough Starshot initiative, promoted by Stephen Hawking, works exactly as planned, it could lead to disaster. Imagine yourself on a world not so different from Earth, orbiting a […]
But we shouldn’t give up on direct detection. Here’s why. Dark matter is not only the most abundant form of matter in the Universe, it’s also the most mysterious. Whereas all […]
The Nazis actively searched for Atlantis, seeing it as important to their mythology.
The biggest questions about cryptocurrency, answered.
The answer has nothing at all to do with the Higgs boson. In this Universe, there are very few fundamental properties that cannot be derived from something simpler. The rules governing […]
A team of archaeologists has discovered 3,200-year-old cheese after analyzing artifacts found in an ancient Egyptian tomb. It could be the oldest known cheese sample in the world.
Anatomy and physiology professor David Harper claims a recent study in The Lancet is flawed.
Your fate is only rarely determined at birth. Ultimately, every star has a chance to get there. Three times in the past 1,000 years, a portion of humanity has looked up […]
Climate change poses a threat to our mental health. Building connected communities is one way to combat a rise in suicide rates as global temperatures increase.
A single thought experiment reveals a paradox. Could quantum gravity be the solution? Sometimes, if you want to understand how nature truly works, you need to break things down to […]
Forget the speed of light or the electron’s charge. This is the physical constant that really matters. Why is our Universe the way it is, and not some other way? There […]
Yes, life exists in our Universe. No, that statement doesn’t equal science. Imagine you’ve encountered a natural phenomenon you want to understand better, but don’t have the tools to do so. […]
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Job hopping can be a smart career move for many employees, but only if they do it right. Here’s how.