The most iconic, longest-lived space telescope of all, NASA’s Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks. Here’s why.
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A growing body of research shows that religious people seem to enjoy more psychological well-being compared to others.
Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.
It’s been precisely 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang occurred. Here’s how we know.
The hyperloop would be a great idea for a completely flat planet. With topography and infrastructure, it’s a very different story.
It’s time to put on your listening hat.
Today, our observable Universe extends for 46 billion light-years in all directions. But early on in our history, things were much smaller.
Both journalists have put themselves in danger to shed light on corruption and abuses of power in their home countries.
Whether NASA likes it or not, humans eventually will be having space sex.
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 […]
As far as we can tell, there’s no limit to how far it goes on; only a limit to how far we can see. Could the Universe truly be infinite?
The Netflix show about a Birmingham crime family and their personal demons concluded earlier this month.
Despite the recent headlines, it’s an extraordinarily unlikely proposition. Have you ever wondered, if it were possible to travel through space straight ahead as quickly as you could imagine, if […]
From COVID and cancer vaccines to a steady drop in the number of people living in extreme poverty, there are reasons for optimism in 2023.
In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?
The dark genome makes up 98% of human DNA. Scientists are just beginning to understand its role in cognitive disorders.
The knobby starfish skeleton has diamond-like properties and could inspire new designs for lightweight, highly resilient ceramics, with widespread applications in engineering and construction.
Human beings are descendants of these early tetrapods – at least those who made a new life on land.
Dark matter was thought to be cold and collisionless. But maybe that’s not the full story. If you look out at the Universe and measure all the matter out there, including […]
Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?
Symmetries aren’t just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.
A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
When cosmic inflation came to an end, the hot Big Bang ensued as a result. If our cosmic vacuum state decays, could it all happen again?
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today’s number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
So far, gravitational waves have revealed stellar mass black holes and neutron stars, plus a cosmic background. So much more is coming.
If nature were perfectly deterministic, atoms would almost instantly all collapse. Here’s how Heisenberg uncertainty saves the atom.
Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.
In the quest to measure how antimatter falls, the possibility that it fell “up” provided hope for warp drive. Here’s how it all fell apart.