19 years ago, the Bullet Cluster provided an empirical proof for dark matter. Even today, modified gravity still can't explain it.
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When "superstar" companies start to dominate their industries, consumers sometimes benefit.
Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
Symmetries aren't just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.
With almost every shovel of sand shifted in Egypt, another artifact comes to light.
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth's magnetic field.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
It’s not just fun: DNA origami has the potential to revolutionize engineering at the nanoscopic scale.
The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.
Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.
Some microbes can withstand Earth's most inhospitable corners, hinting that life may be able to survive similarly extreme conditions on other worlds.
As with any "big idea" progress means a lot of different things to different people and not everyone comes into the discussion with the same priors. Some experts are primarily focused on material progress while others emphasize the importance of moral progress. So to start the discussion, we asked each expert to define the term as they see it from their specific vantage point.
“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”
The detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more.
Some authors never saw their books score widespread acclaim—or even get published at all.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
Pythagoras may have believed that the entire cosmos was constructed out of right triangles.
Will you die when your body dies?
The outer planets' clouds hide the weirdness within.
2023 is an exciting time for the study of quark-gluon plasmas.
There is one House member for every 761,169 people, which isn't exactly representative.
The underground burial tombs were used at least as far back as 2500 B.C.
Mesopotamian beer was not flavored with hops, and it was probably on the thick, porridgey side.
On Earth, microbial growth is common in lava tubes no matter the location and climate, whether it’s ice-volcano interactions in Iceland or hot, sand-floored lava tubes in Saudi Arabia.
Benjamin Breen on his greatest revelations while writing about the birth of psychedelic science.
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.