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 […]
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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 […]
Science journals may be lowering their standards to publish studies with eye-grabbing — but probably incorrect — results.
Unbelievably enough, it all comes back to Pythagoras. One of the first theorems anyone learns in mathematics is the Pythagorean Theorem: if you have a right triangle, then the square […]
Do they have real, observable effects, or are they merely calculational tools?
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
You’re gonna die, cloud! All stars, even our Sun, will someday eventually die. After burning on the main sequence for billions of years, the Sun will expand into a red giant, […]
Scientists discover that under certain conditions two kinds of water exist.
The rites we give to the dead help us understand what it takes to go on living.
The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won’t be nearly so bright.
The Space Force will soon launch its X-37B spacecraft on a classified mission.
Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]
The fruits of long-term thinking will reveal themselves in five or ten or 30 years, when you’ve created the future you’ve always wanted.
Meet a spectacular new blue—the first inorganic new blue in some time.
The ESO finds another exoplanet that’s definitely not a place for us to go.
First picture of worldwide bee distribution fills knowledge gaps and may help protect species.
And, at some point, did the Milky Way lose ours? There are some 400 billion objects flying through the Milky Way galaxy with enough mass that — if they were all made of […]
Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
The metaverse has the potential to be revolutionary, for both good and bad. Here is how we can maximize the former and prevent the latter.
We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
And which ones are probably examples where we’ve fooled ourselves? Every once in a while — multiple times per year — a new research finding fails to line up with our theoretical expectations. In […]
We need more and better data to know, but that’s exactly what’s coming. Over the past few decades, a number of important advances have helped revolutionize our picture of the Universe. […]
Is the time crystal really an otherworldly revolution, leveraging quantum computing that will change physics forever?
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.
Gyms and fitness centers are closed, but your living room is always open.
Think you can solve it? One mathematician has already offered about $1,000 and a bottle of champagne to whoever cracks it first.
Have any of the stars we can see burned themselves out completely? When we look out across the Universe, we’re also peering back in time. In the early 21st-century, we’ve […]