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Different methods of measuring the expansion rate give different values. This one linchpin is key. In science, different methods of measuring the same properties should yield the same results. The expanding […]
It’s one thing to find a galaxy that “shouldn’t exist.” It’s quite another to learn why it does. Above a certain size, spiral galaxies shouldn’t exist. A single major merger — where two […]
The remote volcano Raikoke just erupted after nearly 100 years of silence. Here’s why it matters. On June 22, 2019, a volcano that had been dormant and inactive for nearly a […]
Binary stars and common envelope evolution illustrate messy but “tasty” science.
Sure, Epicureans focused on seeking pleasure – but they also did so much more.
Hungarian cartographer travels the world while mapping its treasures.
They may be using an “air bridge” to do so.
Maslow’s highest level on the hierarchy of needs.
Fundamental physics must reconsider its current path and value system.
An elegant, 400-year-old means of navigating the stars takes flight.
The answer is surprisingly simple, if cataclysmic.
Forensic cartography 101: Explain what Brasilia is doing on this map of 1920s South America.
Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay.
The thin ribbon is a rare and spectacular celestial phenomenon, but so much more than a mere aurora. It isn’t often that skywatchers discover a new naked-eye phenomenon in astronomy, but […]
A diversity of opinion on the subject of a meaningful life.
After docking at the International Space Station, the unmanned capsule executed a fiery and carefully choreographed return to Earth.
A new generation is waiting for the whimsy and wit of Dr. Seuss.
In physics, anything that isn’t forbidden must occur. So why don’t the strong interactions violate CP-symmetry? If you ask a physicist what the biggest unsolved problem facing the field today […]
In this short video, he compares the outset of Buddhism with the biblical garden.
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The beautiful courtship rituals of the Club-winged Manakin leave both the male and the female worse off physically, says evolutionary ornithologist Richard O. Prum.
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Few students will become architects, but architecture may be able teach them more about real-life problem-solving than geometric proofs.
It’s easy to imagine why people link Heath Ledger’s death to his treacherous penultimate role.
Books that will sharpen the youthful mind.
Some of the world’s most prestigious universities aren’t in America.
With the help of positive psychology and the happiness industry, many of us seem to be running in the exact opposite direction of happiness.
The Megachile pluto is about four times the size of a honeybee.