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If you think you know how an astronomical nova works, buckle up. You’re in for a ride like you never expected.
Yes, the Universe is expanding, but if you’ve ever wondered, “How fast is it expanding,” the answer isn’t in terms of a speed at all.
A blood test to diagnose mental illness is a “holy grail” of psychiatry.
Some effective altruists “earn to give” — they make as much money as they can and then donate most of it to charities.
Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.
“I was incarcerated well before I was in prison and I was free before the gates of prison opened up and let me out.”
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The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it’s coming into focus better than ever before.
Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.
The Universe gravitates so that normal matter and General Relativity alone can’t explain it. Here’s why dark matter beats modified gravity.
Stars orbiting black holes were observed to move significantly slower than expected. One explanation centers on dark matter.
On July 4, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Space weather poses a tremendous threat to all satellites, knocking all computer systems offline. Is that a recipe for Kessler syndrome?
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
You are trapped in time. You never live in the world as it is but only as you experience it as it was.
The Apple Watch could soon take the pain out of monitoring blood sugar levels.
There may be a faster, less-painful way to use radiation against cancer.
“Superhabitable” planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today’s number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
Although many of Einstein’s papers revolutionized physics, there’s one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.
Life became a possibility in the Universe as soon as the raw ingredients were present. But living, inhabited worlds required a bit more.
Discrepancies between observations and theory regarding subatomic particles called muons may force scientists to rethink the quantum world.
Apart from the energy needed to flip the switch, no other energy is needed to transmit the information.
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.
No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.
When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas.
For better teamwork, take a lesson from research into soccer fans who put aside their tribalism.
It is humanity’s biggest step yet into the Solar System.
Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.