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By the end of the decade, we may discover one million black holes. A large enough mass in a compact volume inevitably forms a black hole. Both inside and outside the […]
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What can the beauty of autumn’s colors teach us about mortality?
The combination of charge conjugation, parity, and time-reversal symmetry is known as CPT. And it must never be broken. Ever. The ultimate goal of physics is to accurately describe, as precisely […]
It comes from a supernova seen just 33 years ago, and it doesn’t pulse. 33 years ago, a supernova occurred just 168,000 light-years from Earth. This new image of the supernova […]
The dream of zero resistance is closer than you may think. One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical […]
‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
Maybe 100% of stars don’t have planets, after all. When stars form in the Universe, they’re created in giant bursts. A stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy […]
From STEM kits to fashion dolls, these creations all came from the minds of female inventors and designers.
A gift guide of the hottest educational toys for your budding scientist, engineer, or mathematician.
Forgetting them, at any step, can lead to unscientific conclusions. No one, not even the smartest among us, were competent scientists from the outset. The concept of science is simple […]
‘Critical Tourist Map of Oslo’ offers uniquely dark perspective on Norway’s capital.
A 71% wet Mars would have two major land masses and one giant ‘Medimartian Sea.’
We’ve come fantastically far in our understanding of the distant Universe. Here’s how we’ll go even farther. Sometime in 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will launch, deploy, and begin science […]
Planets are either rocky, like Earth, or gas-rich, like Neptune, with no in-between. What are the different types of planets that exist in the Universe? If all you could see […]
The third in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
The second in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
They’re not just a theoretical prediction of quantum gravity. They should be detectable, too. The Universe, if you look at it closely and carefully enough, is fundamentally quantum in nature. […]
And the first sci-fi weapon the Space Force gets is….a device to scramble communications?
From the mid-19th century, fossils were used as evidence for continental drift – but mainstream scientists didn’t buy it until the 1950s.
Parenting could be a distraction from what mattered most to him: his writing.
A close encounter with cosmologist James Peebles encouraged me in my scientific career.
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Research from Denmark finds that mindfulness and music help sustain attention.
How an environmental theology class opened my eyes—and mind—to my biblical responsibility.
Objects coming into our solar system have an origins story to tell.
Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.
Until about a decade ago, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars.
We may find signs of life a mere 31 light-years away.