We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we'll have thousands more.
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Man does not live by measurement alone.
Our desire for recognition at work can lead us to perilous ends.
Some artifacts drown in shipwrecks, others are taken by the tide. Many others will vanish as a result of climate change and rising sea levels.
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there's an associated conserved quantity. Here's the profound link.
Some of the most popular "anti-aging" diets show promise in rodent studies. But are they effective for humans?
For a substantial fraction of a second after the Big Bang, there was only a quark-gluon plasma. Here's how protons and neutrons arose.
The pendulum didn’t tick right when they brought it here: the start of a fascinating story. For nearly three full centuries, the most accurate way that humanity kept track of […]
It turns out it's hard to make work at an Amazon warehouse fun.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
The story of China is the story of global economics.
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
One hypothesis says that sleep helps "clean" the brain of damaged molecules and toxic proteins.
Being bilingual benefits children as they learn to speak — and adults as they age.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Now they're pointing the way to future battery technologies.
Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.
The U.S. has the world's largest debt in absolute terms, but Japan's is the largest when measured in terms of its debt-to-GDP ratio.
Elastic thinking can reveal the assumptions that hamstring our ability to solve seemingly intractable problems.
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn't mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
So far, gravitational waves have revealed stellar mass black holes and neutron stars, plus a cosmic background. So much more is coming.
A puzzling — and huge — break in the geological record finally might be explained.
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use "years" to measure time. Can we do better?
Binary pulsars are doing what no other measurement has done: measure our galactic acceleration directly. Even though the majority of the matter that makes up our Universe may be completely […]
From gamification to VR, here are 10 ways to make learning fun and engaging.
It’s 92 billion light-years wide after just 13.8 billion years. And that’s just fine. If there’s one rule that people know about how fast things can move, it’s that there’s a […]
Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is simply that it, and everything in it, exists. But what's the reason why?
Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we've seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven't.