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Our views from the red planet’s surface are more spectacular than ever. Ever since the earliest spaceflight, humanity has reached for Mars. This photo composite shows Meande Ring, a river on […]
The European currency features buildings that didn’t exist, until Spijkenisse made them in concrete
Wordle activates both the language and logic parts of our brain and give us a nice boost of dopamine, whether we win or lose.
A new study calls the technique “location spoofing.”
With a finite 13.8 billion years having passed since the Big Bang, there’s an edge to what we can see: the cosmic horizon. What’s it like?
When we fail to help in a bad situation, we are morally responsible. So, why don’t we pick up others’ litter?
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.
From politics to culture, we blame “tribalism” for humanity’s problems. This explanation is entirely wrong.
Look out at a distant object, and you’re not seeing it as it is today. It’s size, brightness, and actual distance are all different.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
What most people don’t realize is that everyone’s imagery is different.
“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”
Like his “Mona Lisa,” Leonardo da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
Choking under pressure seems to have deep evolutionary roots.
After it became clear that the world wasn’t 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.
In “The Immortality Key,” Brian Muraresku speculates that the Eucharist could have once been more colorful.
People underestimate their opponent’s capacity to feel basic human sensations. We can short-circuit this impulse through moral reframing and perspective taking.
But most city dwellers weren’t seeing the science — they were seeing something out of Blade Runner.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.
Many planets will eventually be devoured by their parent star. For the first time, we caught a star in the act, eating its innermost planet!
The big question isn’t whether the Universe is expanding at 67 or 73 km/s/Mpc. It’s why different methods yield such different answers.
The eclipse season is starting with a bang.
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
We should all pause to appreciate the awe-inspiring beauty of the Universe.