Albert Einstein and his theory of general relativity continue to amaze us to this day.
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Scientists are solving the problem of costly energy storage.
Before we formed stars, atoms, elements, or even got rid of our antimatter, the Big Bang made neutrinos. And we finally found them.
Are space and time real like atoms are, or is spacetime just a calculational tool? When most of us think about the Universe, we think about the material objects that […]
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 […]
We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
Are atoms, humans, planets, and galaxies destined to expand, too? One of the most revolutionary discoveries of the past century was the fact that the Universe is not eternally static and […]
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
A new model of the Antikythera mechanism reveals a “creation of genius.”
Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.
In all of science, no figures have changed the world more than Einstein and Newton. Will anyone ever be as revolutionary again?
In 2020, we experienced the shortest ‘day’ in 50 years. Here’s the reason why. On the timescales that humans experience, there are lots of things that we consider to be extremely […]
After 20 months, scientists find lab-dish brain cells matured at a similar rate to those of an actual infant.
Is working from home the ultimate liberation or the first step toward an even unhappier “new normal”?
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
If it wasn’t a singularity, how small could it have been? Today, when you look out in any direction as far as the laws of physics allow us to see, the […]
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
Archaeology clues us in on the dangers of letting viruses hang around.
The concept of ‘relativistic mass’ has been around almost as long as relativity has. But is it valid? No matter who you are, where you are, or how quickly you’re moving, […]
Asking science to determine what happened before time began is like asking, “Who were you before you were born?”
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.
For millennia, diamonds were the hardest known material, but they only rank at #7 on the current list. Can you guess which material is #1?
Sometimes, moral lessons can be learned from blowing away zombies.
A single lifetime is more than enough to take you to the limits of the Universe. Right now, there are only three things limiting how far our spacecrafts can take […]
Even though no human has stepped foot on the Moon’s surface in 50 years, the evidence of our presence there remains unambiguous.
Plan S is starting to take hold, but the cost is merely shifting even more to the researchers.