The Big Bang is commonly misunderstood, warping our understanding about the Universe’s size and shape.
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In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
In paint form, the world’s “whitest white” reflects so much light that surfaces become cooler than the surrounding air.
Successful constructive criticism is as much about mindset as methods.
Technology will not save the world, and it is inherently neither good nor bad. But, when tech is coupled to human virtue, good will prevail.
Northern lights in the American South, clusters of huge geomagnetic storms—the Sun is throwing a tantrum right on schedule.
Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
His $1 million ARC Prize competition is designed to put us on the right path.
Earth wasn’t created until more than 9 billion years after the Big Bang. In some lucky places, life could have arisen almost right away.
In “Life As No One Knows It,” Sara Imari Walker explains why the key distinction between life and other kinds of “things” is how life uses information.
The U.S. economy is creating thousands of new jobs each month–and overwhelmingly, most of them go to people with education beyond high school.
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In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.
Four startup founders explain how to derive lessons from the past while still looking ahead to what’s possible.
As with any “big idea” progress means a lot of different things to different people and not everyone comes into the discussion with the same priors. Some experts are primarily focused on material progress while others emphasize the importance of moral progress. So to start the discussion, we asked each expert to define the term as they see it from their specific vantage point.
JWST has brought us more distant views of the early Universe than ever before. Is the Big Bang, and all of modern cosmology, in trouble?
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on human minds, AI, and bacteria.
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
From “shell shock” to “combat fatigue,” the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.
Moral panics about the content of children’s cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.
To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Some question the ethics of sanctions aimed at cancelling Russian art and culture and punishing ordinary citizens.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on beneath the single plate of Mars.
Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why “dark matter” is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team’s loss.
If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn’t have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.