Despite Betelgeuse’s recent faintening and brightening, I’d bet on these stars instead. Betelgeuse, a nearby red supergiant, will someday explode. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way should […]
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From hellishly hot planets to water worlds, some distant planets are like nothing in our Solar System.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
This is a time for family and friends to gather, watch the full moon and eat mooncakes and other delicacies.
Unstable politics and virtue signaling are responsible for creating bureaucratic nightmares.
Every observation out into deep space is also a look back in time. Whenever you observe an object, you aren’t viewing it in its present state. When one of Jupiter’s moons […]
When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four "spikes" coming from it. Here's why Webb will have more.
Puerto Rico's iconic telescope facilitated important scientific discoveries while inspiring young scientists and the public imagination.
Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.
What value does wit hold in genres defined by brute strength?
Pythagoras may have believed that the entire cosmos was constructed out of right triangles.
Science and the humanities have been antagonistic for too long. Many of the big questions of our time require them to work closer than ever.
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton's second law.
We’re still not sure what the ultimate question is. Here are 5 excellent candidates. One of the most amusing stories in all of science fiction is Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s […]
When we rely on the conscious mind alone, we lose; but when we listen to the body, we gain a winning edge.
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.
Political partisanship might be a treatable condition.
A new study looks at how images of coffee's origins affect the perception of its premiumness and quality.
Argentina's black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it's not what crypto proponents expected.
Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
The design of a classic video game yields insights on how to address global poverty.
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
Fear of being scammed can lead us to make decisions that go against our values and goals — both as individuals and as a society.
It’s fundamentally different from space. Here’s how. Here’s a question that most of us have been asked at some point in our lives, “what’s the shortest distance between two points?” By […]
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
"She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”