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Finding it at all was a happy accident. Examining it further may help unlock the secrets hiding within the earliest galaxies of all.
A new survey found that 27 percent of millennials are saving more money due to the pandemic, but most can’t stay within their budgets.
Unless you have a critical mass of heavy elements when your star first forms, planets, including rocky ones, are practically impossible.
Figuring out the answer involved a prism, a pail of water, and a 50 year effort by the most famous father-son astronomer duo ever.
Never made a turkey before? Don’t worry, science can help.
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
Nuclear fusion has long been seen as the future of energy. As the NIF now passes the breakeven point, how close are we to our ultimate goal?
Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries in all the Universe. Is there some way to avoid “having to live with it?”
Great genius is not born of lightning bolt-like moments of inspiration. In reality, perseverance plays the biggest role.
The wise, the old, and the experienced matter to a full and happy life.
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Planet Earth has been around for over 4.5 billion years, but humans? For 99.998% of our planet’s history, humans were nowhere to be found.
If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.
Mind Bank Ai is the newest entrant in an ambitious idea: using AI to create a kind of immortality.
There may be thousands of undiscovered mammal species in the world. Most are small, like bats and rodents, but there could be primates, too. A lifeline for Bigfoot enthusiasts?
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure.
Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.
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When the COVID-19 crisis is over, how will education have changed? Will we have made the most of this moment?
Though gloomy and dense, Russian literature is hauntingly beautiful, offering a relentlessly persistent inquiry into the human experience.
Can spacekime help us make headway on some of the most pernicious inconsistencies in physics?
Ever want to smell like an astronaut? Now you can!
The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?
A clock, designed and built in Europe, ran hopelessly at the wrong rate when brought to America. The physics of gravity explains why.
How slight differences could have forever changed our cosmic history. 13.8 billion years ago, what we know today as our Universe began with the hot Big Bang. Filled with matter, antimatter […]
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.