Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn’t instant.
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Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.
Singularities frustrate our understanding. But behind every singularity in physics hides a secret door to a new understanding of the world.
Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
The concept of burnout is nothing new. But there are ways to prevent burnout and promote greater engagement with work.
We forget how unnatural a lot of formal education is. “Learning how to learn” requires bridging the gap between the abstract and the natural.
The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?
Undiagnosed brain disease or divine inspiration? The origins of the French composer’s most provocative composition remain up for debate.
Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.
While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Elephants mourn the dead, dolphins give names to each other, and insects can recognize faces. The animal world is much smarter than we think.
Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
Sometimes, going “deeper” doesn’t reveal the answers you seek. By viewing more Universe with better precision, ESA’s Euclid mission shines.
The problems that Americans face are often too complex for fact-checking alone.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here’s why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.
In New Zealand, ambitious Kiwis want to launch a lawn mowing business; in South Africa, it’s cooking gas refills. Start-up dreams vary widely.
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Speculation about the existence of aliens goes all the way back at least to the Greek philosophers. Their arguments will sound familiar.
Equations that describe time travel are fully compatible and consistent with relativity — but physics is not mathematics.
Here are five things to know before conducting a training evaluation.
This short story is a fictional account of two very real people — Anaximander and Anaximenes, two ancient Greeks who tried to make sense of the universe.
It doesn’t matter how ridiculous a lie is. As long as it is repeated often enough, some people will believe it.
Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs, but even if you can’t join the Great Resignation, you can still pursue a do-over moment.
For some reason, the bodies of deceased monks stay “fresh” for a long time.
Problem-solving skills are in demand. Every job posting lists them under must-have qualifications, and every job candidate claims to possess them, par excellence. Young entrepreneurs make solutions to social and […]
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.