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LIGO just announced the second neutron star-neutron star merger ever seen in gravitational waves. It doesn’t match the first. On August 17, 2017, an event occurred that forever changed how we […]
Even if the company call pull it off, are Americans ready to trust fully autonomous cars?
We think of self-actualization as a lofty goal, but research suggests it may just be another way of obeying our biological programming.
When we think about the birth of the Universe, was time already in place? When we look at the Universe today, we know with an extraordinary amount of scientific certainty that […]
Countless top-down reforms haven’t improved the U.S. education system; can community-based education make a difference?
The American Museum of Natural History presents the new, more accurate T. rex.
Other forms of expression—nude dancing, flag burning, donating to political campaigns—are protected by the First Amendment. Why not computer code?
Two new papers say everything we knew about black holes was wrong.
The world of particle physics sure does have surprises, even for the most educated of physicists out there. If you ever take a visit to the physical site of CERN, where […]
A fascinating mathematical structure exists that goes well beyond our common experience. Could it revolutionize physics? Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is that every particle within it — at […]
That’s the strategy behind a program being tested in one Indiana school district.
NASA JPL takes a first step toward a GPS for space.
And how cutting just $1 billion per year in funding from NASA’s budget would be a catastrophe for science. When you think of the great cosmic beyond and what we know […]
Study shows minerals sequester carbon for thousands of years, which may explain oxygen’s abundance in the atmosphere.
Research suggests that people with depression find sad music calming — or even uplifting.
What we can learn from King Abdullah II, 2018 Templeton Prize Laureate.
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The first image of an Event Horizon is here. Here’s what it means. Variety isn’t just the spice of life, but a natural consequence of living in our Universe. Gravitation, obeying […]
A new method promises to capture an elusive dark world particle.
It’s not impossible according to physics, but we truly don’t know how this object came to exist. Out in the extremities of the distant Universe, the earliest quasars can be found. […]
Celebrity scientists like Donna Strickland are showing that science & faith co-exist just fine.
The realism of video games takes storytelling to another level.
During World War II, the U.S. incarcerated over 100,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps throughout the West.
2019 is on track to becoming a record-high year for measles cases in the U.S.
What would you do if money was no object?
NASA announced the five winners of the latest phase of its 3D-Printing Habitat Competition for designing the structures to be used by humans on Mars.
They may be using an “air bridge” to do so.
As Facebook and YouTube move to moderate anti-vaccination content, Amazon has given no indication that it plans to do the same.
Florida researchers offer schools a simple message: Send home report cards earlier in the week.
A new study shows that some men’s reaction to sex is not what you’d expect, resulting in a condition previously observed in women.