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There's no escaping the death of loved ones. But that doesn't mean we're powerless in the wake of loss.
"Once quantum mechanics is applied to the entire cosmos, it uncovers a three-thousand-year-old idea."
A growing body of research suggests that optimism plays a significant role in promoting both physical and mental well-being.
Since its observation discovery in the 1990s, dark energy has been one of science's biggest mysteries. Could black holes be the cause?
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
Social isolation, back pain, and screen fatigue getting you down?
Experiments tell us quantum entanglement defies space and time.
More than 90 percent of people make a mistake on this test.
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
The Kardashev scale ranks civilizations from Type 1 to Type 3 based on energy harvesting.
Of all the injustices in Nobel Prize history, her 1957 Nobel snub is the most egregious. One of the biggest scientific revolutions of the 20th century was the discovery of […]
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a "lazybones" with a "not very solid" education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.
On July 4, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.
Einstein's theories of relativity faced fierce opposition. One critic claimed he was attempting to subvert the scientific method.
Three cutting-edge techniques – the gene-editing tool CRISPR, fluorescent proteins and optogenetics – were all inspired by nature.
Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.
New blood types are regularly discovered by an unusual absence or an unusual presence — both of which can result in tragedy.
Determining if the universe is infinite pushes the limits of our knowledge.
It started with a 22-year-old woman, named in papers only as Mrs McK.
A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.
From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?
Yes, "the laws of physics break down" at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.
The stars stood no chance against the more-massive black holes.
The very word "quantum" makes people's imaginations run wild. But chances are you've fallen for at least one of these myths.
Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and over, won't get you an infinite amount of energy. There's a fundamental limit due to physics.