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There are exposed planetary cores orbiting stars, and we may have already found them. When we take a look at the planets in our Solar System, there’s a pretty clear difference […]
Minnesota earned its ‘blue mark’ in the 1975 Morris earthquake, which had its epicenter in the western part of the state.
Peer pressure is a powerful thing, even for adults. In his Big Think+ video, “Generate Better Conversations,” economist Tim Harford tells the story of an instructive study done in the […]
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 […]
Iceland has closed almost 88% of its gender gap and increased its lead over second-ranked Norway.
We trust science more than we even realize, and yet we’re quick to reject it. Why?
It doesn’t matter where you’re from — music is an emotional powerhouse.
Benjamin Franklin once wrote in a letter that “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” As much as we admire Franklin’s wit, he forgot […]
Living 150 years sounds great… till you consider the effects on population.
New research on ankle exoskeletons show promising results.
A separate study shows that binge drinkers are also ordering more rounds.
From talking about Schrödinger’s cat to nuking the South Pole, this decades-old interview shows why Kaku was born to be a science educator.
Prevention is always better than waiting .
How an off-the-radar Nobel Prize brings us ever nearer to finding a major cure.
New software makes lab work go much faster—and hastens the search for cures.
It’s a great time to be an astrobiologist—and for all of us to be asking, “Are we alone?”
The week-long global protest, which is calling for an end to the age of fossil fuels, is taking place in more than 160 countries today.
It contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined, and the science of our planet explains why. Although practically all of Earth’s human population lives on dry land, our surface […]
Unlike most articles that are titled with a question, the answer isn’t automatically “no.” Announced on January 6, 2020, NASA’s TESS mission has just discovered its first Earth-sized, habitable zone […]
The NICER experiment, designed to measure neutron stars as never before, just released their first pulsar map, and it’s amazing. After typical supernovae, remnant collapsed cores of matter are left behind. […]
We still don’t know how it came to be this way. Every once in a while, we find an object in the Universe that completely mystifies us. For generations, astronomers have […]
Almost certainly not. Here’s the science of why. The Universe, as we know it, simply doesn’t add up. On the one hand, we can look out on a cosmic scale and […]
The study is among the first to explore the relationship between emotional abilities, political ideologies, and prejudice.
After Kepler but before James Webb, TESS is preparing astronomers for the coming exoplanet revolution. There are always new discoveries and achievements occurring in science, and certain fields have experienced […]
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When the Universe gives us clues, we ignore them at our own peril. When you approach the world scientifically, you seek to gain knowledge about how it works by asking it […]