How the half-hour commute and motorised transport changed our cities into huge metropolises.
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An elegant, 400-year-old means of navigating the stars takes flight.
The Belgian psychotherapist has a lot to teach us.
If you think about the way a gravitational wave detector works, you might encounter a paradox. Here’s the solution. One of the greatest scientific achievements in all of human history […]
A longstanding astronomical gap between neutron stars and black holes is finally coming to a close. Astronomy has taken us so far into the Universe, from beyond Earth to the planets, […]
In her new documentary, Maxine Trump tackles the topic of choosing not to procreate.
The term socialism makes political discourse difficult. Should we do away with it altogether?
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
“Here I want to remind all of you of a fact that the U.S. publicly defines outer space as a new battlefield,” a Chinese foreign minister said.
Desperation made their family, and others, try to escape their home country.
Research has shown that men today have less testosterone than they used to. What’s happening?
Every object in the Universe is constrained by the laws of physics. Does this mean there are any black holes that shouldn’t exist? When it comes to the objects that […]
A measles comeback is not the sort of return our children deserve.
Earth is old enough to have been home to other industrialized civilizations so far back in the past we have no idea they were there. What we’ll leave behind may offer clues of what we could look for as evidence.
Renowned scientists and technologists who’ve passed away in 2018.
The dream of multi-messenger astronomy is to seen an event with gravitational waves, neutrinos, and light all together. The newest candidate just might get us there. When it comes to cataclysmic […]
What’s more massive than the heaviest known neutron star but lighter than the lightest known black hole? LIGO may be about to solve that mystery. Whenever a star is born in […]
From the cosmic blast into another being’s mind, to rolling bliss or obedient mind-slavery, fictional drugs have it all.
An unbelievably clear look at what goes on inside our bodies.
Even with the best preparation imaginable, sometimes you have to get lucky, too. Even from our perspective in 2019, 50 years later, humanity’s achievements from July, 1969, still mark the pinnacle […]
If you think nothing can move faster than light, check out this clever way to defeat that limit. Nothing can move faster than the speed of light. When Einstein set forth […]
The legacy of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who led Soviet secret police in the “Red Terror,” still confounds Russia.
An exhaustive report from The New York Times shows the alarming extents to which Facebook has been sharing user data.
Patients with lung disease could find relief by breathing in messenger RNA molecules.
Scientists are highly skeptical, but such “cosmic wanderlust” isn’t a bad thing.
Many of the world’s favorite records weren’t really recorded by the artist on the label.
The meaning—and range—of “habitable” goes much farther than we once thought.
Adam Frank and Marcelo Gleiser, founders of the popular blog, have landed at ORBITER.
While nothing is ever certain about the future, here are 10 great achievements you can bet on. Every year, unexpected scientific discoveries challenge what we know. Observations using the Atacama Large […]