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What an academic sting on humanities journals really means to the rest of us. And to academia.
Elite organizations tend to get conspiracy theorists going.
Tiny and efficient, these biodegradable single cells show promise as a way to target hard-to-reach cancers.
Eight-dimensional octonions may hold the clues to solve fundamental mysteries.
FOIA release sheds light on the DOD’s own struggle to understand UFOs.
Gravity gets weaker as the distance squared. But gravitational waves only get weaker as the distance. Why? One of the things we often just accept about the world is that […]
A star orbiting past our galaxy’s supermassive black hole offered a chance to test relativity as never before. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is the […]
With 1.6 billion households in the world, how does Santa do it? With a little Christmas magic… and a lot of science! How does Santa Claus do it? In one long […]
The Polar Vortex was brutal, but not compared to the rest of the Universe.
There are two classes of so-called “big questions.” The former are invented, and the latter can be fully answered by science.
Giving our solar system a “slap in the face.”
Cosmic inflation is what happened before, and set up, the Big Bang. Here’s what it’s like to live in an inflating Universe. Our Universe today is full of matter and […]
Scientists have replicated Albert Einstein’s spooky action at a distance on a massive scale—well, for the quantum world, anyway.
A mind-bending paradox questions the nature of reality.
Is it saying too much to say something doesn’t exist when you have no evidence either way?
LIGO, here on Earth, has exquisitely-precise distances its lasers travel. With three spacecrafts in motion, how could LISA work? Since it began operating in 2015, advanced LIGO has ushered in an […]
Sabine Hossenfeder has some problems with how it’s practiced today.
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There’s something very special inside a proton and neutron that holds the key. There are few things in the Universe that are as easy to form, in theory, as black holes […]
A primer on the infinite of knowledge waiting to be learned.
Number of proton-neutron pairs determine how fast the particles move, results suggest.
13.8 billion years ago, our Universe as-we-know-it came into existence. Here’s what it was like. Looking out at our Universe today, we not only see a huge variety of stars and […]
The Human Diagnosis Project project is building the world’s “open medical intelligence” system.
The entire device is about the size of an ice chest, and the temperature it achieves will be 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space.
The cosmic story of us, from before the Big Bang until today, is a story that all of us share. Enjoy it, in just 200 words. In the beginning, there was […]
The solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, was the nail in the coffin of a Newtonian Universe. On May 29, 1919, the world changed forever. For hundreds of years, Isaac […]
The Standard Model explains all the particles and interactions we see. But it can’t explain this. Of all the particles that we know of, the elusive neutrino is by far the […]
Stephen Hawking was one of the greatest scientific and analytical minds of our time, says NASA’s Michelle Thaller.
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We speak about it, argue over it, and even fight wars for it. We know it when we see it. But just what is energy, anyway? When it comes to being […]