A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.
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An important step toward figuring out our space station future.
It’s possible to measure philosophy’s progress in two ways. But is that really the point?
Today’s popular weight-loss drugs could soon be joined by brain stimulation and gene therapies.
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
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All the things that surround and compose us didn’t always exist. But describing their origin depends on what ‘nothing’ means.
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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.
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The “first cause” problem may forever remain unsolved, as it doesn’t fit with the way we do science.
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Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago find that death triggers increased activity in certain brain cells.
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As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
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Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
Even after the first stars form, those overdense regions gravitationally attract matter and also merge. Here’s how they grow into galaxies.
Hoarders know their habits are abnormal, and yet they cannot help themselves. Maybe you can help them.
Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
Early on, only matter and radiation were important for the expanding Universe. After a few billion years, dark energy changed everything.
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