Everything on Earth is made of atoms and their building blocks. Without this one rule, they’d never make anything interesting. Take a look around you at everything on Earth. If […]
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Three scientist friends, working separately, share the prestigious prize.
Why do all of our virtual assistants have a female voice?
And why Einstein’s quest for unification was doomed from the start. If you wanted to answer the question of what’s truly fundamental in this Universe, you’d need to investigate matter and […]
Imagine you had perfect technology and unlimited fuel. How far could you go? Human spaceflight has brought us beyond Earth, but we could potentially venture even farther. The very first launch […]
The coin depicts a black hole and one of the late physicist’s most important formulas.
The diet claims that people with different blood types process their food differently. Does it pass muster?
Most elderly individuals’ brains degrade over time, but some match — or even outperform — younger individuals on cognitive tests.
New technology could predict cancer up to 5 years in advance.
What could be better than “do unto others as you would have others do unto you”?
100+ years ago, General Relativity came along, and Einstein gave the Universe a cosmological constant. Here’s why that was a mistake. Back in the 17th century, Isaac Newton put forth the […]
When the Universe expands, photons redshift to longer wavelengths and lower energies. So where does that energy go? Imagine the ultimate version of a toy Universe: it’s expanding, it’s full of […]
A fully programmable quantum computer that can outperform any classical computer is right at the edge of today’s technology. Earlier this month, a new story leaked out: Google, one of […]
Could Jerome Segal lead the country toward the utopia of our American dreams?
There’s an enormous evolutionary advantage for flamingos to stand on one leg, but only physics explains why. Of all the natural marvels unique to planet Earth, the diversity of the living […]
Astrophysics has probed a test of a fundamental law, ‘Lorentz invariance,’ well beyond the LHC’s limits. Einstein is still right. The greatest scientific legacy that Albert Einstein left us is this: […]
Being ahead of the curve can be a dangerous place. These 7 thinkers were driven from their homelands over it.
Moving the needle forward on psychedelic research.
There are rules absolutely forbidding it from happening. But some particles do it anyway. All the matter we know of in the Universe is made up of Standard Model particles. Photons […]
Can microdosing LSD enhance creativity and focus?
When stars get ejected from galaxies within massive clusters, they go where the dark matter is. Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in the Universe, displaying its effects in […]
Many of them are spinning at nearly the speed of light. When you do the math, there’s no other way it could have been. Take a look out there at the […]
The laws of physics are not time-reversal invariant. Here’s how we know. No matter when, where, or what you are in the Universe, you experience time in only one direction: forwards. […]
From anti-gravity pens to cool model kits, these space-themed gifts will make any star gazer very happy.
But few critics actually addressed the science on climate change.
New book focuses on some of the world’s most peculiar borderlines.
Even though it was the crowning achievement of Einstein’s career, he was only a small part of the full story. If you were a physicist in the early 20th century, there […]
How an environmental theology class opened my eyes—and mind—to my biblical responsibility.
The discovery could lead to improved treatments for chronic pain.
Not everything needs a medium to travel through. If we can overcome that assumption, we don’t need the aether at all. All throughout the Universe, different types of signals propagate. Some […]