Jupiter’s mysterious auroral events are caused by vibrating waves of plasma.
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Fossils depicting animals in action are very rare.
To enable us to read, the brain piggybacks on other cognitive processes.
Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.
Spicy foods are enjoyed the world over, but scientists don’t know why people partake in culinary masochism.
By challenging your preconceptions, art offers a framework by which you can solve problems.
Watch the plasma slide down the prominence like a roller coaster! Our Sun, despite it’s outward appearance as a perfectly hot sphere, is anything but uniform. When take a closer look […]
The drive would provide enough thrust for a spacecraft to travel near the speed of light using only electricity, says physicist Jim Woodward.
Astronomers spot periodic lights coming from near the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
This is a time for family and friends to gather, watch the full moon and eat mooncakes and other delicacies.
Our temporal experience of the world is not divided into a series of neat segments, yet that’s how we talk about time.
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
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 […]
Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?
The mediocrity principle is often used to make claims about the abundance of life across the universe, but these claims are likely unfounded.
Congratulations to Penrose, Ghez and Genzel, and to black hole enthusiasts everywhere. On October 6, 2020, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded towards research in black holes. 50% of […]
They’re not just a theoretical prediction of quantum gravity. They should be detectable, too. The Universe, if you look at it closely and carefully enough, is fundamentally quantum in nature. […]
Every star we can see, including our sun, was born in one of these violent clouds.
Three of our dimensions are spatial and one is temporal, but could there be more? From any point in space, you are free to move in any direction you choose. No […]
The answer to this question depends on how you define “freedom.”
Mass determines a star’s fate… except when it doesn’t. Supernova events are common, visually spectacular astronomical cataclysms. In 1987, a supernova just ~168,000 light-years away was observed in the Large Magellanic […]
A new model addresses a longstanding problem: where do quasars get the fuel they need to outshine entire galaxies?
It might not feel that way, but a 95% dark Universe really is the best game in town. No matter how much we might try and hide it, there’s an enormous […]
Tighten your ‘thopter seatbelts and get those worm-hooks ready: we’re going to unpack the hype surrounding Dune, both the book and the movie.
Some of them may have formed just 200 million years after the Big Bang. When we look out at the Universe, we’re not seeing objects as they are today, but rather […]
We should not romanticize ancient Egyptian culture.
Quantum physics just keeps getting weirder, even as it gets more fascinating. “Is it a wave or is it a particle?” Never has such a simple question had such a […]
Already 14 billion miles from the Sun, Voyager 1 is speeding away at 38,000 mph.
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.