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“Think defensively about how you can protect yourself from an almost inevitable attack, rather than assuming you’ll avoid harm.”
Today, every Homo species is extinct besides humans. But one of our close evolutionary relatives still lives on in our DNA.
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?
Why are the rest masses of fundamental particles related like this? When it comes to the nature of matter in the Universe, the Standard Model describes the known elementary particles perfectly […]
Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way’s central black hole looks like.
There are an estimated two trillion galaxies within the observable Universe. Most are already unreachable, and the situation only gets worse.
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 […]
If you think ‘particles are matter’ and ‘antiparticles are antimatter,’ think again. In this Universe, there are certain rules that have never been observed to be broken. Some of these […]
Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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?
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
The bizarre discovery could pave the way for advances in regenerative medicine for humans.
Think you can hide your feelings pretty easily?
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 […]
Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?
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 […]
Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.
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 […]
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. […]
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.
“It’s kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires,” Musk said.
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 […]