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Based on the atoms that they're made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here's why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity's best tool for figuring out how things work.
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]
Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?
American students are being compelled to specialize earlier and earlier. Here's what it takes to build a successful physics foundation.
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we'll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here's what everyone should know.
Scientists should be cautious when expressing an opinion based on little more than speculation.
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
In Sun-like stars, hydrogen gets fused into helium. In the Big Bang, hydrogen fusion also makes helium. But they aren't close to the same.
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]
Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs, but even if you can’t join the Great Resignation, you can still pursue a do-over moment.
The pendulum didn’t tick right when they brought it here: the start of a fascinating story. For nearly three full centuries, the most accurate way that humanity kept track of […]
Turns out gender assumptions have been going on for quite some time.
Fear that new technologies are addictive isn't a modern phenomenon.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own facts. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own […]
Deniers will never stop misleading others. Here’s the truth. Every so often, advocates of a fringe theory — one that doesn’t fit the evidence as well as the mainstream theory — do what they can […]
“Hubble’s Law” is only an approximation, and breaks down when we need it most. From anywhere in the Universe, you can choose to look out at any other galaxy that’s present. […]
The inside of every black hole leads to the birth of a new Universe. Could our Universe have arisen from one?
Both made monumental contributions that were far ahead of their time. It’s hard to believe, but the idea that the Universe was dominated not by normal matter but rather by dark […]
Quantum physics isn't quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
Some purveyors of "wellness" sure are sounding like right-wing conspiracy theorists.
Despite fact check campaigns, anti-vaccination influence is growing.
If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]
Since 1957, the world's space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
From a personal point of view and from an economic point of view, this is nothing short of potentially disastrous for people's livelihoods.
Health care professionals worldwide are facing a second crisis, the consequences of which we're only beginning to understand.