In the perilous mountains of Tibet, archaeologists unearthed ancient hand and footprints that seem to be the creative work of children.
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The modern antiracist movement is harming the very people it claims to help, according to the linguist John McWhorter.
It is time to give the Russian cosmologist the credit he deserves.
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
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If you think you know what sex, gender, and “the right thing to do” for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
The so-called “court painter of Silicon Valley” was shaped by her youth in communist Poland but looks forward to a future ruled by celebrity robots.
With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]
From physics and alchemy to theology and eschatology, Isaac Newton’s research was rooted in a personal pursuit of the Divine.
Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.
On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?
Roughly the size of a thumbnail, this newly discovered toadlet has some anatomical surprises.
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.
In the expanding Universe, different ways of measuring its rate give incompatible answers. Nobel Laureate Adam Riess explains what it means.
Admit it: you have no idea why a group of crows is called a murder. Here’s why.
We have two descriptions of the Universe that work perfectly well: General Relativity and quantum physics. Too bad they don’t work together.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
For relatives who live far apart, holiday rituals may be the glue that holds the family together.
The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.
Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
And after years of mystery, we finally know where they come from. Here on Earth, thunderstorms and accompanying lightning strikes represent tremendous releases of energy. It was way back in 2011 […]
In 1995, Hubble peered at the Pillars of Creation, forever changing our view. Now in 2022, JWST completes the star-forming puzzle.
From the Notre Dame to Buddhist statues, dozens of irreplaceable artifacts are destroyed every year by both man and nature.
The beauty of this magical medicine called silence is that it is available to all of us, even in cities, if only we care to listen.
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
Many galaxies really are ultra-distant, but some are just intrinsically red or dusty. Only with spectroscopy can JWST tell which is which.
Once limited in range, mass hysteria can now spread across the globe in an instant.
Just 12 million light-years away, the galaxies Messier 81 and 82 offer a nearby preview of the Milky Way-Andromeda merger.