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The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”
Birthrates are cyclical and have gone up and down throughout history.
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?
Put two grapes close together in a microwave and you’ll get an electrifying result, all because of the physics of plasmas.
A series of recent studies found that people with healthy levels of vitamin D were less likely to contract COVID-19 and suffer severe complications from it.
From Einstein to Twain, Garson O’Toole investigates the truth behind your favorite — and often misattributed — quotes.
Make Sunsets is bringing solar geoengineering from sci-fi to reality.
The laws of physics aren’t changing. But the Earth’s conditions are different than what they used to be, and so are hurricanes as a result.
U.S. states vary radically in terms of electricity generation. Vermont is the cleanest, while Delaware is the dirtiest.
An enormous amount of antimatter is coming from our galactic center. But the culprit probably isn’t dark matter, but merely neutron stars.
The “little red dots” were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.
Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.
It’s about 7.6 million times faster than what you probably have at home.
For centuries, Newton’s inverse square law of gravity worked beautifully, but no one knew why. Here’s how Einstein finally explained it.
Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.
Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
Planets can be Earth-like or Neptune-like, but only rarely are in between. This hot, Saturn-like planet hints at a solution to this puzzle.
Finding it at all was a happy accident. Examining it further may help unlock the secrets hiding within the earliest galaxies of all.
Impossible standards and poor self-understanding are making us miserable.
In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.
From inside our Solar System, zodiacal light prevents us from seeing true darkness. From billions of miles away, New Horizons finally can.
Magnetic monopoles began as a mere theoretical curiosity. They might hold the key to understanding so much more.
Many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of “otherness.” We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.
The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.
The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It’s theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn’t agree.
The near and far sides of the Moon are so different from each other, and no one is sure why. New lunar samples could confirm a wild theory.