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USGS’s ‘Unified Geologic Map of the Moon’ is the definitive blueprint of the lunar surface.
Without a little help from Einstein, we couldn’t have made this discovery. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, still churns out novel discoveries. The Hubble eXtreme Deep […]
Although many dinosaurs never left the ground, they still possessed the basic structural framework for flight.
A new study explores the therapeutic potential of the psychedelic drug ibogaine, which has been used in Africa for centuries.
The first supernova ever discovered through its X-rays has an enormously powerful engine at its core. It’s unlike anything ever seen.
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
Every observation out into deep space is also a look back in time. Whenever you observe an object, you aren’t viewing it in its present state. When one of Jupiter’s moons […]
Historically, periods of mass flourishing are underpinned by technological revolutions. Currently, we are undergoing a technological revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen.
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 […]
A team of scientists in Basel believes this will open up new lines of research.
What can the beauty of autumn’s colors teach us about mortality?
Identity politics has become a highly contentious element within modern political discourse. Those who support this approach believe it bolsters the presence and power of those who would otherwise be […]
65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?
Even tyrants and despots offer wisdom worth heeding.
We still don’t know how it came to be this way. Every once in a while, we find an object in the Universe that completely mystifies us. For generations, astronomers have […]
Sharks fear killer whales. How does this impact the ecosystems they share?
The solar system has some strange stuff in it. Learning how it ended up that way can tell us where we’re going.
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.
Doctors may be missing fatal illnesses because medical textbooks are biased toward white skin.
Pandemics have historically given way to social revolution. What will the post-COVID revolution be?
The Crab Nebula goes back to 1054, opening a window into our cosmic past. On July 4, 1054, Chinese astronomers recorded a “guest star” in the Taurus constellation. A ‘guest star’ […]
It had long seemed impossible that supermassive black holes could grow to such enormous sizes. But the biggest problem is now solved.
It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.
Thou shalt not conclude “aliens” from insufficient data. When it comes to what’s out there in this Universe, perhaps the only thing that’s greater than our cosmic ignorance is the […]
It’s 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how. How old is the Universe? For generations, people argued over whether the Universe had always existed, whether it […]
One image can give over 100 times the data we now get from Hubble. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, revealed the previously unseen Universe. The most distant galaxy ever […]
And can we devise an experiment to tell, even when we aren’t looking? One of the most bizarre aspects of quantum physics is that the fundamental entities that make up the […]