Glueballs are an unusual, unconfirmed Standard Model prediction, suggesting bound states of gluons alone exist. We just found our first one.
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Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
Shooting star or piece of space dust?
Baruch Spinoza suggests how to lead a virtuous and blessed life.
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
George Washington, for example, was quite happy to engage in deception, if that deception would help protect the United States.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
As early as we’ve been able to identify them, the youngest galaxies seem to have large supermassive black holes. Here’s how they were made.
“She understood me and I understood her. I loved that pigeon.”
From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?
This is a time for family and friends to gather, watch the full moon and eat mooncakes and other delicacies.
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.
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Biomedical science assumes that people want to live as long as possible. They don’t.
To Vladimir Putin, a young KGB colonel at the time, the decision was a colossal mistake.
What Odysseus needed from his father was something more important: the comfort of being a son.
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.
There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.
All nations have founding myths, but none are quite like Russia’s.
Today, alcohol is as important as candy to the Halloween economy.
This is a perversion of justice.
The most celebrated genius in human history didn’t just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.
Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.
Hybrid working, robot fast food workers, and the rapid acceleration of NFTs are just the beginning.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
Letting nature’s expert engineers lead the way.
The concept of ‘relativistic mass’ has been around almost as long as relativity has. But is it a reasonable way to make sense of things?
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
“Strategic ambiguity” has long been the West’s strategy on Taiwan.