The hot Big Bang was an energetic, brilliantly luminous event. Today’s Universe is alight with stars. But in between, the dark ages ruled.
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Cancer cells hoard iron in unusually high quantities. Scientists have discovered how to leverage this to create safer cancer drugs.
Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.
Will you die when your body dies?
An enormous amount of antimatter is coming from our galactic center. But the culprit probably isn’t dark matter, but merely neutron stars.
Finding a tiny planet around bright stars dozens or hundreds of light-years from Earth is extremely difficult.
Talent wants to be free — but a safe company culture puts “the maze in the mouse” and shackles progress.
The amygdala can hijack your brain’s response if it recognizes past trauma in a current situation. To regain control, simply press pause.
Named “Supernova H0pe,” it shows how JWST plus gravitational lensing can be used to solve the greatest puzzle facing astronomy today.
Is it like a tiny ball — or what?
To put things in perspective, the cost of sequencing a single genome in 2012 was around $10,000.
We are prone to false memories. One reason is that we are biased toward remembering tidy endings for events, even if they didn’t exist.
The world is facing many crises, and we should look to natural interdependence and ancient wisdom as we explore science for solutions.
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.
Spend well, save well, live well.
Many capabilities contribute to effective change leadership, but four stand out as vitally important at a macro level.
Still, the author’s main argument wasn’t totally discredited.
“Conceptual isolation” offers an agreeable solution.
How does star-formation, occurring in small regions within galaxies, affect the entire host galaxy that contains it? JWST holds the answers.
There are hints that it could lead to new treatments for Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and other brain disorders.
Scientific evidence does not support the use of trigger warnings, which are described as a “disingenuous gesture of trauma awareness.”
CRISPR, stem cells, and even cancer drugs are helping shape an AIDS-free future.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
A history of othering, experimentation, and mystery.
Technology goes in directions we can never predict — so we must be prepared to limit the spread of unintended consequences.
It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
Cosmology is unlike other sciences. When our view of the Universe changes, so does our understanding of philosophy and science itself.
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?