Recent measurements of subatomic particles don’t match predictions stemming from the Standard Model.
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Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.
“Superhabitable” planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.
As time goes on, dark energy makes distant galaxies recede from us ever faster in our expanding Universe. But nothing truly disappears.
Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?
Einstein hated “spooky action at a distance,” but much to his chagrin, quantum mechanics remains as spooky as ever.
To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.
Albert Camus was a Franco-Algerian philosopher with some great insights on the meaning of life, why you should look to this life and not the next, and why suicide is a poor choice.
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
SpinLaunch will cleverly attempt to reach space with minimal rocket fuel. But will physics prevent a full-scale version from succeeding?
Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.
The standard model of cosmology has a big new problem: Some galaxies seem to be too old.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
Extremely precise atomic clocks are not just of theoretical interest; they could help detect impending volcanic eruptions or melting glaciers.
Historian Timothy Snyder talks with Big Think about how true liberty requires both negative and positive freedoms.
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.
New technology is helping physicists move forward in the search for the Theory of Everything.
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.
It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.
NASA will use energy from Earth’s gravity to launch the Lucy spacecraft in October of this year.
For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
This oddball system of three stars might be our best chance at finding nearby life in the Universe.
Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it’s a 1 followed by 19 zeroes.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what’s the maximum lifetime for a star?