It’s not just for Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars. Not even close. Shortly after Earth first formed first formed, life quickly took hold, thriving ever since. Both reflected sunlight on a […]
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Scientists from John Hopkins find a material for quantum computing.
“For decades, a national anti-cruelty law was a dream for animal protectionists. Today, it is a reality.”
All this from a wad of gum?
A close encounter with cosmologist James Peebles encouraged me in my scientific career.
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Helium and carbon are made copiously in the interiors of stars. But the in-between elements? They’re rarities everywhere. If you were to take every element in the periodic table and […]
What will it take to conquer our immemorial space dream?
Is the way we choose which animals to protect out of date?
Many of the bathrooms uncovered at Pompeii and elsewhere were communal.
A new hypothesis suggests that you can “catch” noncommunicable diseases from other people via the microbiome.
Why does dark matter, if it doesn’t dissipate energy, become gravitationally bound at all? One of the most puzzling components of the Universe has to be dark matter. Although we have […]
A question that’s baffled physicists for nine years has been resolved by the simplest possible answer.
“I was so moved when I saw the cells stir,” said 90-year-old study co-author Akira Iritani. “I’d been hoping for this for 20 years.”
A new immunotherapy treatment is showing positive signs in early-stage clinical trials.
How the phenomenon of time dilation became very real to me … at a monastery.
A new paper claims that scientists might be wildly mistaken about the density — and therefore, the shape — of our universe.
The light we observe isn’t the same as the light that gets emitted. Here’s what causes it. The light you see, when you look out at the stars and galaxies that […]
Hundreds more are documented in Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks.
And does it require the idea of ‘negative gravity’ in order to work? The biggest question that we’re even capable of asking, with our present knowledge and understanding of the Universe, […]
When the supernova occurs, a whole slew of signals will arrive at once. But there’s one hint that could successfully warn us in advance. As Betelgeuse continues to vary in brightness […]
Within the next billion years, the Magellanic Clouds might merge with our galaxy. But the new stars are already here. Within the Milky Way, there are only a few instances of […]
Scientists envision a new type of organism ready to assist humans.
Black hole mergers are some of the most energetic events in the Universe. Could the gravitational waves they produce ever harm us? The Universe is not a static, stable place. Out […]
As time goes on, every galaxy beyond our local group will speed away from us faster and faster. And yet, more will keep appearing. The farther away a galaxy is […]
Electron-positron or proton-proton colliders are all the rage. But the unstable muon might be the key to unlocking the next frontier. If you want to probe the frontiers of fundamental […]
Many people, including some scientists, fear that the coming 5G WiFi revolution will harm humans. Here’s why that’s unfounded. Over the coming few years, a new set of infrastructure will […]
It marks the first time a plant has been grown on the moon.
From galaxies with no dark matter to ones with hundreds of times more dark matter than normal, our Universe needs it more than ever. One of the most mysterious substances in […]