Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
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For the cosmos, it’s all too easy being green. Stars come in a wide variety of colors, but never green. Stars form in a wide variety of sizes, colors and masses, […]
It peaks the nights of August 11–13, but it’s no longer the year’s most reliable meteor shower. Every year, beginning in mid-July, planet Earth commences passing through an enormous debris […]
The bizarre discovery could pave the way for advances in regenerative medicine for humans.
Planets are either rocky, like Earth, or gas-rich, like Neptune, with no in-between. What are the different types of planets that exist in the Universe? If all you could see […]
There are an estimated two trillion galaxies within the observable Universe. Most are already unreachable, and the situation only gets worse.
If you think it’s just three quarks held together by gluons, you’ll want to read this. At a fundamental level, the Universe is composed of indivisible particles. From macroscopic scales down […]
Think you can hide your feelings pretty easily?
Most of us will never run a 4 minute mile. But on a bicycle, almost anyone can do it. As human beings, we often take for granted how our bodies work. […]
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?
Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.
More energy means more potential for discovery, but we’re topped out. If your goal is to discover something completely novel, you have to look in a way that no one else […]
After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way's central black hole looks like.
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
When you mix science with speculation, you get speculation. But the underlying science is still real. Whenever you hear the phrase, “it’s just a theory,” it should trigger alarm bells in […]
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
Find out the truth for yourself. If this past year has shown us anything, it’s how thoroughly we rely on high-quality expertise. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, it […]
"It's kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires," Musk said.
The Baltic nation rolls out an unlikely tourist attraction: 47 weird ice cream flavors.
We need more and better data to know, but that’s exactly what’s coming. Over the past few decades, a number of important advances have helped revolutionize our picture of the Universe. […]
Despite all that we've learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could "God" be the answer?
You're always in control of your breath.
Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.
Think there are habitable super-Earths out there? Think again. Here in our Solar System, we have two very distinct types of planets: small, terrestrial, rocky worlds, with thin (or no) atmospheres […]
Learn how to practice "self-indifference."
The Big Theoretical Physics Problem At The Center Of The ‘Muon g-2’ Puzzle In early April, 2021, the experimental physics community announced an enormous victory: they had measured the muon’s magnetic […]
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn't made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.
What speech is harmful, how do we know, and what do we do if we find out?