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We might live in a quantum Universe, but we’ll violate the principle of relativity if space is discrete. If you try and divide matter into smaller and smaller chunks, you’ll […]
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The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
Anastasia lives alone in perfect harmony with nature – or so the story goes – and nature serves her devotedly.
It wasn’t the birth of space and time. But it was truly essential to our cosmic story. For more than 50 years, we’ve had definitive scientific evidence that our Universe, as […]
Machine learning is a powerful and imperfect tool that should not go unmonitored.
Experts plead with Americans to keep gatherings limited this Thanksgiving, while families devise new ways to celebrate the holidays.
Even after our merger with Andromeda, we might retain our spiral shape for trillions of years. You probably don’t think about it very often, but the Milky Way galaxy won’t remain […]
The largest moon around our last planet didn’t originate with Neptune. When it comes to the moons of our Solar System, there’s only one planet that doesn’t fit in with our […]
In General Relativity, the fabric of space doesn’t remain static over time. Everything else depends on the details we measure. If there’s one thing we’ve experimentally determined to be a constant […]
Animals are adapting all the time these days to stay out of our way.
A volcano in California is a hot spot for conspiracy theorists.
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
A lifelong fan on why she’s drawn to the magnificent gas giant.
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There are three factors all competing to determine the fate of the Earth, and the one that’s winning now won’t win in the end. If you could measure the average distance […]
There was less than a 2 second delay between gravitational waves and light, but that’s incredibly meaningful. There’s an important rule in relativity that — as far as we know — all objects must […]
A new dinosaur species related to Tyrannosaurs found in Canada.
A clean work space, plants, and putting on the right pants all make working from home easier, according to science.
Despite all the challenges, Hubble has vindicated this discovery. Practically everywhere we look in the Universe, the large-scale objects that we see — small galaxies, large galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies, […]
At a very simple level, it’s nothing but physics. Here’s why you should care. It’s not very often that a physics problem becomes a politicized issue, but that’s exactly what’s happened […]
Sobering accounts from one of the most pivotal battles in world history.
Playwright and novelist Deborah Levy on chaos and order in creative work. Also: marvelous digressions on the caterpillar and the octopus.
The dream of an ‘Earth-like’ planet showcases our astrobiological ignorance. Over the past decade, our understanding of what planets exist around stars other than our own has exploded. The number […]
According to international law, the seabed belongs to everyone.
Parental anxieties stem from the complex relationship between technology, child development, and the internet’s trove of unseemly content.
Innovative drugs are sometimes held up due to old-fashioned human biases.
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.