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On other planets, blue skies and red sunsets aren’t the norm.
The fruits of long-term thinking will reveal themselves in five or ten or 30 years, when you’ve created the future you’ve always wanted.
While other factors exist, sexual prowess appears to have helped determine the role of Protoceratops frills.
In reality, it has no color at all. Here’s why. Every time you see an illustration of the COVID-19 coronavirus, it’s shown with a red color to it. Sometimes it’s red […]
‘Reductio ad absurdum’ won’t help you in an absurd Universe. Throughout history, there have been two main ways humanity has attempted to gain knowledge about the world: top-down, where we […]
For the ancients, hospitality was an inviolable law enforced by gods and priests and anyone else with the power to make you pay dearly for mistreating a stranger.
A new study explores how using positive labels to describe a majority group may negative impact perceptions of minority groups.
The Twin Jet nebula, shown here, is a stunning example of a bipolar preplanetary nebula. At the center, a dying star is in the final stages of life where it […]
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.
A new study shows our planet is much closer to the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s center than previously estimated.
The author of ‘How We Read’ Now explains.
In 2011, a bizarre, green object was discovered. At long last, we finally understand why. One of astronomy’s biggest surprises came in 2007, when a mysterious green object was found. […]
And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]
Automation technologies manufacture goods or provide labor with minimal human intervention. They can trace their origins as far back as the 16th century—and arguably further—but didn’t take off until the […]
Some of them may have formed just 200 million years after the Big Bang. When we look out at the Universe, we’re not seeing objects as they are today, but rather […]
Once a book is published, who gets to interpret it? Us or the author?
Everyone has pondered what they would do with an extra hour a day. Would they get more sleep or spend more time with family? Spend time on a side project […]
Quantum physics just keeps getting weirder, even as it gets more fascinating. “Is it a wave or is it a particle?” Never has such a simple question had such a […]
Researchers dramatically improve the accuracy of a number that connects fundamental forces.
You’re gonna die, cloud! All stars, even our Sun, will someday eventually die. After burning on the main sequence for billions of years, the Sun will expand into a red giant, […]
James Gillray’s ‘plumb-pudding’ caricature is “probably the most famous political cartoon of all time.”
It’s hard to stop looking back and forth between these faces and the busts they came from.
If our nearest star has an Earth-like planet, here’s how we’ll see it. As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization […]
For the first time in many years, there’s currently a comet visible to the naked eye in Earth’s night sky: comet NEOWISE. For the first time in many years, there’s currently […]
Study confirms the existence of a special kind of groupthink in large groups.
Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
A new study finds that dogs fed fresh human-grade food don’t need to eat—or do their business—as much.
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.