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We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we’re not so sure.
It can sometimes feel like career progress is beyond your control. This can be especially acute if you are a young professional or entering a new industry. You’re too inexperienced, […]
Milgram’s experiment is rightly famous, but does it show what we think it does?
A physicist creates an AI algorithm that predicts natural events and may prove the simulation hypothesis.
Cosmic rays aren’t just limited by the speed of light. Even among non-scientists, it’s well-understood that there’s an ultimate speed limit to the Universe: the speed of light. If you’re a […]
Filaments, hundreds of millions of light-years long, were just caught spinning. In our own cosmic backyard, everything we see spins, rotates, and revolves in some fashion or other. Our planet […]
Companies can identify you from your music preferences, as well as influence and profit from your behavior.
Prosthetic arms can cost amputees $80,000. A startup called Unlimited Tomorrow is aiming to change that by making customized 3D-printed bionic arms for just $8,000.
It’s the early 20th century, and you are the captain of a ship. A barquentine specifically—three masts and a coal-burning steam engine in her belly. She’s a sturdy and capable […]
When the mutual relatives of two royal families died, the countries were likelier to go to war.
Quick! There’s a runaway train on the tracks. Some dastardly evildoer has knocked the driver out cold and tied five people to the tracks ahead. The train is barreling down […]
If it weren’t for a subatomic quantum rule, our Universe would be vastly different. In many ways, our views of the distant Universe are the closest things we’ll ever get […]
William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.
What was the universe like one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang? Science has an answer.
With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?
Aliens symbolize the best and worst of humanity. When we dream of aliens, we are pondering our future selves.
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Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.
Both journalists have put themselves in danger to shed light on corruption and abuses of power in their home countries.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
Can spacekime help us make headway on some of the most pernicious inconsistencies in physics?
Only the best physical theories outlast the minds that invented them. Throughout the 20th century, a number of discoveries revolutionized our Universe. The discovery of the interior structure of atoms as […]
The controversy over the universe’s expansion rate continues with a new, faster estimate.
Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.
Differences in the way that the Hubble constant—which measures the rate of cosmic expansion—are measured have profound implications for the future of cosmology.
Malignant discrimination remains a problem in society, but it’s one we’ve improved upon compared to its historic highs—or, rather, lows. Interracial marriage, to pick one example of progress, used to […]
Identity politics has become a highly contentious element within modern political discourse. Those who support this approach believe it bolsters the presence and power of those who would otherwise be […]