Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic cosmic events of all. On October 9, 2022, a remarkable one occurred: the brightest ever seen.
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Our brains are hardwired to find fault. The best managers don't let this steer how they interact with their team.
The $21.5-billion project could involve tunneling hundreds of feet under Lake Geneva.
A fascinating 90 minute podcast between Dr. Ivanna Escala and Ethan Siegel on Starts With A Bang!
A unique combination of DNA and silica is the strongest known material for its density (but you’ll need a lot of it before you can build a suit from it).
The Poisson distribution has everyday applications in science, finance, and insurance. To compare the results of some biomedical studies, more people ought to be familiar with it.
Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.
Ditch the old brain vs. heart assumptions, and instead think about a heart-led brain.
As far as we know, it's only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
19 years ago, the Bullet Cluster provided an empirical proof for dark matter. Even today, modified gravity still can't explain it.
Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.
Jim Lee, President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, tells us how his childhood obsession with Superman changed his life.
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The very concept of a "problem with no solution" goes against human nature. But we must accept this harsh reality to have peace in our lives.
Legend holds that newly elected popes in the Middle Ages had to present their genitals for inspection to confirm that they were male.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin's work: 40 years later.
The first-of-its-kind map, which goes all the way down to the level of a single cell, could help prevent common birth defects.
An influential series of books argues that the history of the world is the history of generations. Is it right?
Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter recently captured images that could help scientists better under the mysterious physics of our Sun.
"The pulsar sort of consumes the thing that recycled it, just as the spider eats its mate.”
By studying the dwarf galaxy Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte ~3 million light-years away, JWST reveals the Universe's star-forming history firsthand.
Named M51-ULS-1b, it's certainly a curious astronomical event. But the evidence is far too weak to conclude "planet."
Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.
For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.
Your very own "Conspiracy Detection Kit."
Nobody actually knows what will come of AI. But we can console ourselves with the knowledge that nobody has ever really known anything about the future.
Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which "infinity" wins?
Estonia has long been seen as a pioneer in digitizing the democratic process.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?
In a major advance, scientists have found a new and groundbreaking way to force electrons to flow only in one direction in a superconductor.