With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
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If you don’t mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
The false assumption the Multiverse relies on is that something which exists requires an explanation.
Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.
It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.
How did the troughs form?
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
Centuries ago, the plague forced people into quarantine for years. Isaac Newton and Galileo used the time to revolutionize the world.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself?
No matter how hard we try, we will never reach a final theory that unifies scientific knowledge. The very nature of science doesn’t allow it.
Since dark matter eludes detection, the mission will target sources of light that are sensitive to it.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.
Known as orphaned planets, rogue planets, or planets without parent stars, these “outliers” might be the most common planet of all.
There’s an extra source of massive “stuff” in our Universe beyond what gravitation and normal matter can explain. Could light be the answer?
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
This oddball system of three stars might be our best chance at finding nearby life in the Universe.
If you look into a mirror, you’ll notice that left-and-right are reversed, but up-and-down is preserved. The reason isn’t what you think.
Social media distorts the reality of the public sphere.
For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.
For the first time, light that comes from behind a black hole has been spotted.
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.
An annular eclipse is coming to Earth on October 14, 2023. Six months later, a total solar eclipse is headed our way. Here’s the reason why.
We’ll never be able to extract any information about what’s inside a black hole’s event horizon. Here’s why a singularity is inevitable.
There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.
Not too hot, not too cold…
With two different black hole event horizons now directly imaged, we can see that they are, in fact, rings, not disks. But why?