Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.
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Just by observing the tiny amount of deuterium left over from the Big Bang, we can determine that dark matter and dark energy must exist.
When you combine the Uncertainty Principle with Einstein’s famous equation, you get a mind-blowing result: Particles can come from nothing.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
Aptera expects to begin delivering its solar-powered car later in 2022.
The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.
Venus has far more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than Earth, which turned our sister planet into an inferno. But how did it get there?
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
What do we mean by a black hole’s size? A photon sphere? The minimal stable orbit? The event horizon? The singularity? Which one is right?
The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
Here’s what the weather phenomenon baking large parts of the country actually means.
Try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.
The existence of another watery world in the outer solar system may offer clues to how such seas form — and hope for another spot to search for life.
Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.
It peaks the nights of August 11–13, but it’s no longer the year’s most reliable meteor shower. Every year, beginning in mid-July, planet Earth commences passing through an enormous debris […]
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
The lithium-ion alternatives could help create a safer, greener future.
This short story is a fictional account of two very real people — Anaximander and Anaximenes, two ancient Greeks who tried to make sense of the universe.
Tumor cells traverse many different types of fluids as they travel through the body.
Nobody knows where the word “penguin” comes from.
From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here’s why that’s an extraordinary feat.
Leap years will only get us through the next few thousand years before we have to fix it. With every year that passes, we assume that two separate things will both […]
The authors call it “wildly theoretical” — but let’s take a look, anyway.
An excerpt from renowned neuropsychologist Nicholas Humphrey’s book “Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness.”