Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
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When Einstein gave General Relativity to the world, he included an extraneous cosmological constant. How did his ‘biggest blunder’ occur?
If something exists, it is by definition natural.
Headlines have blared that quasar ticking confirms that time passed more slowly in the early Universe. That’s not how any of this works.
A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests?
“If we find just one other example of biology out there, then life is not an accident.”
In logic, ‘reductio ad absurdum’ shows how flawed arguments fall apart. Our absurd Universe, however, often defies our intuitive reasoning.
Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?
In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell “up” provided hope for warp drive. Here’s how it all fell apart.
We may be the last generation born not knowing if we are alone in the Universe.
From a photon’s viewpoint, the Universe is timeless and dimensionless.
It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.
You don’t have to “feel the burn” to see improvements to your health and well-being.
In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
Bang bang all over the Universe.
You can only create or destroy matter by creating or destroying equal amounts of antimatter. So how did we become a matter-rich Universe?
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves decay? The far future stability of the Universe depends on it.
For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new paper says no, it’s 26.7 billion. How do we decide?
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
Controversial physics theory says reality around us behaves like a computer neural network.
Video cameras on city streets are only the most visible way your movements can be tracked.
I think, therefore I am (rich).
In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.
Ever since the start of the hot Big Bang, time ticks forward as the Universe expands. But could time ever run backward, instead?
In the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have existed. Why aren’t they equal today?
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
Looking at our planet with post-Copernican eyes has the power to change how we relate to it and each other.
Who — or what — really controls your mind?