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Few scientific ideas have been as polarizing as string theory. There are good reasons to both love it and hate it. String theory is perhaps the most controversial big idea in […]
Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
The last image puts it all in perspective. Compared to what we find in our Solar System, galaxies are truly enormous. The Sun may be 109 times the diameter of […]
Once only dark energy remains, empty space still won’t be completely empty. Imagine, if you dare, the very end of the Universe. The stars — past, present, and future — have all burned out. […]
From before the Big Bang to the present day, the Universe goes through many eras. Dark energy heralds the final one.
Researchers propose a gravity-based system for long-term energy storage.
Targeting a signaling pathway in mice helped them retain muscle and bone mass aboard the International Space Station, according to a new study.
Even in the most exotic scenario imaginable, they still can’t remain stable in the Earth’s interior. It’s well known among scientists that if you submit even the most nonsensical paper […]
An ongoing experiment aboard the International Space Station aims to find out more about the fundamentals of combustion.
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
Using a laboratory model, scientists get a nice Jovian surprise.
Even if you remove everything you can from the Universe, some energy will still remain. Here’s what that means. Imagine, if you can, what it would mean to have a Universe […]
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It’s got to be God.
Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.
On the largest scales, dark matter holds the Universe together. But on small ones, it helps reveal exactly what it is… and isn’t! Dark matter is often thought of as the […]
As the first Friedmann equation celebrates its 99th anniversary, it remains the one equation to describe our entire universe.
Researchers develop a novel method to measure gravity that can get much more information.
New mathematics have shown that lines of energy can be used to describe the universe.
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
Tyson dives into the search for alien life, dark matter, and the physics of football.
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If dark matter is fundamentally different from the normal matter we know, there should be a way to test it. Here are the results. Dark matter — despite the enormous indirect evidence for […]
After a decade of failed attempts, scientists successfully bounced photons off of a reflector aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, some 240,000 miles from Earth.
In 2006, the IAU demoted Pluto. Here’s what we know today. In 2006, the last planet in our Solar System suffered an unforgettable insult, as Pluto — known for generations as our ninth […]
Many still cling to the idea that we live in a deterministic Universe, despite the nature of quantum physics. Now, the “least spooky” interpretation no longer works.
There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe’s expansion. They disagree. “Early dark energy” might save us.
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.
There are three things your new theory must do in order to be taken seriously as science. This one’s 0-for-3. Every once in a while, a revolutionary idea comes along that […]
It had long seemed impossible that supermassive black holes could grow to such enormous sizes. But the biggest problem is now solved.