Binary black holes eventually inspiral and merge. That’s why the OJ 287 system is destined for the most energetic event in history.
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According to literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, Dostoevsky’s talents were on par with those of William Shakespeare.
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Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
More evidence that we’re drowning in microplastic particles.
If you truly want to understand modern astrophysics, knowing how to read this graph is essential.
Quantum mechanics + consciousness: There is nothing better than mixing two great mysteries to produce an even bigger one.
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New research suggests that there is no “typical” form of Alzheimer’s disease, as the condition can manifest in at least four different ways.
Smart bandages quickly identify antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and normal bacteria, in owies.
Death is the great and terrifying unknown, awaiting us all at the end of this life. Giving it a personality makes it easier to gaze upon.
As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we’ve ever seen our home galaxy.
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.
More than any other of Einstein’s equations, E = mc² is the most recognizable to people. But what does it all mean?
How our fantasy world of the past has become everyday reality.
The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is the event of a lifetime.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
Move over, IC 1101. You may be impressively large, but you never stood a chance against the largest known galaxy: Alcyoneus.
A Harvard professor’s study discovers the worst year to be alive.
The “Euro Night Sprinter” map is utopian, but Europe’s rail future could look a lot like it.
Is a proton fundamentally more ‘quarky’ or ‘gluey’ in nature? One question that every curious child winds up asking at some point or other is, “what are things made of?” Every […]
Everybody wins, everybody loses, or something in between.
The Universe, according to our best understanding, just doesn’t add up. The Universe, according to our best understanding, just doesn’t add up. Wherever we look — from tiny subatomic scales all the way […]
America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?