Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
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Meet the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.
For decades, the Communist Party of China has relied on reeducation camps to reform “parasites” and persuade people to support the communist cause.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
No. No no no. Just… no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it’s a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
Humanoid robots are coming, and Ameca is designed to be the ideal platform to study human-robot interactions.
Love him or hate, Karl Marx redefined geopolitics and shook up the world order.
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Which philosopher had the strongest arguments? David Hume, who raised some of the best challenges for science, ethics, and religion.
“Don’t tread on me” is a slogan of the deep sea, too.
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury “only” reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.
Mass determines a star’s fate… except when it doesn’t. Supernova events are common, visually spectacular astronomical cataclysms. In 1987, a supernova just ~168,000 light-years away was observed in the Large Magellanic […]
The unfamiliar landscape of America’s medical past is marked by bizarre incidents, forgotten breakthroughs and selfless sacrifice.
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Researchers figure out the infectious periods of coronavirus on cardboard, metal and plastic.
The most massive nearby stars could be the seeds our supermassive black holes need. The problem with the Universe, as we see it today, is that we only get a snapshot […]
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 […]
Price gouging is prohibited in 34 US states and Washington D.C. But two scholars ask whether that’s the way it should be.
There’s a boundary to how far back we can observe everything that exists. Despite everything we’ve learned about our Universe, there are many existential questions that remain unanswered. We don’t know […]
An algorithm produced every possible melody. Now its creators want to destroy songwriter copyrights.
A computer coder and a lawyer decide they have a right to speak for all the songwriters that ever lived, those who are alive today, and all those yet to be born.
The most famous ‘supernova impostor’ of all could have died back in the 1840s. Here’s what we think kept it alive. In all of astronomy, no stellar event releases more energy […]
Extraterrestrial life should arise fairly easily. But intelligence is another matter entirely. Planet Earth has been around for the past 4.5 billion years or so: about the last third of […]
How does one supernova get so bright, so energetic, and so massive? It’s a spectacular mystery to solve. On February 22, 2016, one of humanity’s automated sky-scanning telescopes — the Pan-STARRS Survey for […]
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At the core of the largest star-forming region of the Local Group sits the biggest star we know of. Mass is the single most important astronomical property in determining the lives […]
A universal basic income is just one of Andrew Yang’s ideas to update capitalism for the 21st century.
A robotic teddy bear could improve physical and emotional outcomes in pediatric patients.
We put presidents on our money, but isn’t there more to life than politics?