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Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
Questioning isn't just a way to get the right answer — it's also a means for sustaining relationships and creative thinking.
Monsters have always represented societal fears, but narrative art also casts doubt on whether we fully understand our monsters — and their slayers.
Terrified of blushing? You might have erythrophobia.
We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
The universe is filled with unlikely events, but is also full of ways to fool ourselves.
Psychologist Mary C. Murphy explains why growth-mindset teams outperform those centered around a lone genius.
Our concept of "failure" is way too narrow.
The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won't be nearly so bright.
Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]
Strange underwater icicles form in the Earth's coldest regions and freeze living organisms in place.
The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?
We frequently say it's 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that's not all that's in the Universe.
A new survey found that 27 percent of millennials are saving more money due to the pandemic, but most can't stay within their budgets.
Move over, IC 1101. You may be impressively large, but you never stood a chance against the largest known galaxy: Alcyoneus.
From textiles and transportation to chemicals and microchips, a group of researchers proposes a new way to measure the impact of innovation.
Despite Betelgeuse’s recent faintening and brightening, I’d bet on these stars instead. Betelgeuse, a nearby red supergiant, will someday explode. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way should […]
The 2020 election cycle is not yet as wild as the 1876 election that made Rutherford B. Hayes president.
Like witchcraft, "racecraft" refers to a kind of magical thinking — one that treats race as if it were scientifically meaningful.
Every observation out into deep space is also a look back in time. Whenever you observe an object, you aren’t viewing it in its present state. When one of Jupiter’s moons […]
This century alone has already had a couple of Onesdays (1/11/11 and 11/11/11).
Harvard psychiatrist Robert Waldinger discusses how 80 years of ongoing research show relationships to be vital for health and happiness.
An artist’s impression of what the fully-deployed James Webb Space telescope will look like from the perspective of an observer on the ‘dark’ (non-Sun-facing) side of the observatory. (NORTHRUP GRUMMAN) […]
A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.
The English Department is instituting a series of reforms that cuts across the entire university.
For centuries, men prevented women from writing music. These classical composers broke with social norms and made their mark on history.
Do they have real, observable effects, or are they merely calculational tools?
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton's second law.