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Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many "fundamental constants" does our Universe require?
Psychologist Noel Brick shares the mental techniques we can use to improve our performance on and off the field.
From active listening to giving feedback, these five capabilities are integral to interpersonal skills training.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
The photometric filters for the Vera Rubin Observatory are complete and showcase why they are indispensable for astronomy.
When you can't enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.
Late-night shows, developed during the "golden age" of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.
“Think defensively about how you can protect yourself from an almost inevitable attack, rather than assuming you’ll avoid harm.”
The great hope is that beyond the indirect, astrophysical evidence we have today, we'll someday detect it directly. But what if we can't?
An incredible composite image of Pandora's Cluster, Abell 2744, simultaneously showcases both our impressive knowledge and vast ignorance.
The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It's theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn't agree.
Lasers, mirrors, and computational advances can all work together to push ground-based astronomy past the limits of our atmosphere.
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here's how.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
2023's Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
Despite the Sun's high core temperatures, particles can't quite overcome their mutual electric repulsion. Good thing for quantum physics!
Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.
End of life patients face mental health challenges uniquely existential and spiritual in nature — but psychedelics are emerging as a possible solution to relieve the suffering.
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?
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
Today, every Homo species is extinct besides humans. But one of our close evolutionary relatives still lives on in our DNA.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?
If you think ‘particles are matter’ and ‘antiparticles are antimatter,’ think again. In this Universe, there are certain rules that have never been observed to be broken. Some of these […]
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
Why are the rest masses of fundamental particles related like this? When it comes to the nature of matter in the Universe, the Standard Model describes the known elementary particles perfectly […]