With a new data run coming in 2019 at unprecedented sensitivity, we might finally get our answers. Over the past three years, LIGO discovered ten independent instances of merging black holes […]
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It’s where Earth’s axial tilt with respect to the Sun is most extreme. Here are the consequences. Today is June 21st, 2019: the day of the solstice. Although there are […]
A trio of scientists from Harvard hopes to do this in 2019.
Our friendly neighborhood gas giant serves as a cosmic catcher’s mitt.
We’ve never seen an image of a black hole’s event horizon before. Here’s what we’re expecting, based on what we already know. For hundreds of years, physicists have hypothesized that the […]
A new book tells the very old story in a fun way for a younger generation.
Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? This article delivers the final word on what people mean by “correlation does not imply causation.”
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It’s great to be in a position of authority — you have a unique chance to get things done and move your business forward. Command, though, is a funny thing: […]
Q: How long would it take the average Walmart employee to earn as much as its CEO?
A: 1,000 years.
These photos of scientific heroes and accomplishments inspire awe and curiosity.
Between Carl Sagan’s laughter, the brainwaves of somebody in love, and a live theremin concert, humanity has sent a lot of data out into the stars.
His words are being beamed by satellite into a black hole about 3,457 light years away.
We, for one, welcome our new pizza overlords.
We’re a long way from the beginnings of life on Earth. Here’s the key to how we got there. The Universe was already two-thirds of its present age by the time […]
LIGO and Virgo have now detected a total of 11 binary merger events. But exactly 0 were in the Milky Way. Here’s why. One of the most spectacular recent advances in […]
We need a public mature enough to recognize that policy decisions and actions are more relevant to leadership than professed beliefs.
Authoritarian regimes have had a long history of targeting intellectuals who don’t agree with them. What kind of people get deported? We have a list of ten people whose work got them shipped out of Russia.
LIGO, here on Earth, has exquisitely-precise distances its lasers travel. With three spacecrafts in motion, how could LISA work? Since it began operating in 2015, advanced LIGO has ushered in an […]
When two black holes merge together, about 5% of their mass gets lost. Where does that information go? Do merging black holes lose information? They absolutely must, according to General […]
Researchers at Princeton engineer a new type of diamond with silicon and boron that solves past issues with quantum data storage and retrieval.
Free-market fans often fail to see how self-interest can create diseased-market games. Robert Frank helps diagnose American healthcare’s deadly trillion-dollar disease.
Research suggests that your name affects the level of success you’ll achieve in your career and love life, and even where you choose to live.
The United States is by far the world’s largest dealer of arms, which often fall into the wrong hands.
Hey. Remember former Speaker of the House John Boehner? The guy who famously said that he was “unalterably opposed” to legalizing marijuana? Well, now he’s a huge pothead.
The bacteria C. metallidurans is able to take trace amounts of gold and copper and turn it into teeny tiny gold nuggets a few nanometers in size.
Humans are much more dangerous to spiders than vice versa.
Home network Porch has created infographics that depict the most dangerous kitchen items according to the 2017 U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.
With a total of 10 black holes detected, what we’ve learned about the Universe is truly amazing. On September 14th, 2015, just days after LIGO first turned on at its new-and-improved […]
Being an American president is a powerful but dangerous job, a fact shown by many assassination attempts.
Love being an intelligent, mobile, conscious being? Thank colliding neutron stars. They created all the gold in the universe, including the gold atoms that your brain can’t function without.
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