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The image you’re seeing isn’t a hole in the Universe, and the cosmic voids that do exist aren’t hole-like at all.
To the ancient Greeks, exotic animals were proof of mythological creatures. To the ancient Romans, they were oddities and adversaries.
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.
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The Human Genome Project put together 92% of our DNA blueprint. Here’s what it took to complete the rest.
Scientists use tripping rats to show that LSD disrupts communication between two key brain regions.
Geologists discover a rhythm to major geologic events.
How did the troughs form?
With the rise of Big Data, methods used to study the movement of stars or atoms can now reveal the movement of people. This could have important implications for cities.
Betelgeuse, the tenth brightest star in the night sky, mysteriously dimmed last year. Now researchers know why.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
The most common element in the Universe, vital for forming new stars, is hydrogen. But there’s a finite amount of it; what if we run out?
Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it’s magical.
Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.
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The most unique interloper into our Solar System has a natural explanation that fits perfectly — no aliens required.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
Until recently, we were only able to view Venus’s surface with radar or by landing on the planet. It was believed that Venus’s surface was entirely obscured by clouds; NASA’s Parker Solar Probe proved otherwise.
I hate grading. I love teaching, though, and giving students feedback is teaching.
New technology is helping physicists move forward in the search for the Theory of Everything.
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
It’s the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
Cities overstimulate our senses and are full of people we don’t know. Maybe humans were meant for this.
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn’t mean CGI is always used to good effect.
For the first time, light that comes from behind a black hole has been spotted.
It took a series of ingenious experiments in the 20th century to uncover some of our biggest cognitive biases.
The “overview effect,” experienced by astronauts when they view the Earth from outer space, irrevocably changes your perspective as a human.