CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something big.
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The scientists are headed “straight to the FDA” to begin human trials.
Is the multiverse real? It’s one of the hottest questions in all of theoretical physics. We invited two astrophysicists to join the debate.
According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.
There are many things that separate science from ideology, politics, philosophy, or religion. Follow these 10 commandments to get it right.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn’t mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
Mathematically, it is a monster, but we can understand it in plain English.
The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.
“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.
Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Even in the very early Universe, there were heavy, supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. How did they get so big so fast?
There’s a lot left to understand, ponder, and investigate. And there always will be. For hundreds of thousands of years — nearly all of human history — we had no definitive answers to some of […]
To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.
Trauma happens to everyone, but the way you respond to it determines its impact on your brain and body.
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Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
Two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe disagree. What’s the root cause of this Hubble tension?
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It’s theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn’t agree.
There are an estimated two trillion galaxies within the observable Universe. Most are already unreachable, and the situation only gets worse.
Cooperation was the first technology.
The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.
If you have an old TV set with the “rabbit ear” antennae, and you set it to channel 03, that snowy static can reveal the Big Bang itself.
The effects are even worse for women.
Leading a scientific revolution is easy: you just have to succeed where the current theory fails while equaling its successes. Good luck!