Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.
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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 […]
Successful forgers are remembered as great conmen, not artists. This is strange, considering their forgeries fooled even the most seasoned critics.
Movie soundtracks don't just help us recall the plot of a film; they also allow us to better understand its meaning.
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton's second law.
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn't made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
Easily distracted? Try a "distractibility delay."
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
The East India Company issued stocks to minimize the risk on their unpredictable but highly lucrative voyages. The rest is history.
The highest-energy particles of all come from space, not human-made colliders. When it comes to the most energetic particle collisions of all, you might think that the Large Hadron Collider […]
Venus Life Finder could launch as early as 2023.
Even with all the recent impacts we've seen, it might be more "foe" than "friend" to us.
Scientists discover burrows of giant predator worms that lived on the seafloor 20 million years ago.
This is a perversion of justice.
Remarkable 'fan art' commemorates 50th anniversary of legendary guitar player's passing.
Known as orphaned planets, rogue planets, or planets without parent stars, these "outliers" might be the most common planet of all.
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.
65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?
On Friday, the moon will pass through the Earth's outer shadow, known as the penumbra.
Late-night shows, developed during the "golden age" of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.
No matter how your year went, Hubble’s views of the Universe never disappoint. Year after year, Hubble’s telescopic views are unparalleled. Saturn, its rings, and 5 of its moons are […]
The study identified superhabitable planets outside of our solar system.
A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.
Techshot's 3D BioFabrication Facility successfully printed human heart tissue aboard the International Space Station.
Physics demands that it couldn’t be any other way. Here’s why. Ask anyone — even someone with no background in science — to name something that Einstein did, and odds are they’ll come back with […]
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
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In 1990, we only knew of the ones in our Solar System. Today, we know of thousands, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
In recent years, women have made incredible strides in the business world. Forty-one women currently lead Fortune 500 companies. While that remains an unacceptably low percentage (8 percent) overall, it […]