After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
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Seneca thought the use of ice was a “true fever of the most malignant kind.”
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it’s coming into focus better than ever before.
Mansa Musa, perhaps history’s richest man, claims he ascended the throne of Mali after his predecessor sailed west and never came back. Could he have made it to the New World?
Particle physicists use gigantic accelerators to investigate the infinitesimal.
Genetic analysis reveals that a specimen collected in 2019 is the same subspecies as one caught more than a century earlier.
“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 Knights Templar were not only skilled fighters, but also clever bankers who played a crucial role in the development of Europe’s financial systems.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
Placebo treatments don’t always need to be given deceptively to have positive effects.
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link.
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
The Universe isn’t as “clumpy” as we think it should be.
How to say “I love you” in Basque, the “most loving” cities around the world, and where most of America’s singles live — and so much more!
A new book envisions an encounter of minds between the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, the physicist Werner Heisenberg, and the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
Unmasking a “convenient untruth” in U.S. politics.
Parents will sometimes use children as weapons in their relationship battles — and the fallout can be devastating.
Each December, the Geminid meteor shower puts on a show for skywatchers across Earth. With a new Moon at 2023’s peak, it’ll be outstanding!
Destruction of the Ukrainian dam unleashed a catastrophic flood—and surfaced centuries of cultural heritage. Now there’s a call not to rebuild it.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
This isn’t America’s first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
Many galaxies really are ultra-distant, but some are just intrinsically red or dusty. Only with spectroscopy can JWST tell which is which.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
That completely useless thing you want to get rid of — it’s probably more important than you think.