Even before the Big Bang, energetic radiation was always present. When it comes to the physical Universe, the notion of “nothing” may truly be possible only in theory, not in […]
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Wearable technology can help increase lifespan by changing what we know about our dietary needs and creating new ways to exercise.
Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.
Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
In terms of sheer productivity, “-gate” has no peer. Wikipedia’s list of -gates has over 260 entries.
Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what’s known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There’s a profound reason why.
In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.
Da Vinci dreamed up a helicopter 400 years before they actually existed. Now, engineers have brought his design to life, but with a twist.
Ultrasound might be able to damage the novel coronavirus in the same way an opera singer’s voice can shatter a wine glass.
Our galaxy not only isn’t stationary, but different parts are accelerating at different rates. When we think about the Universe as a whole, the accelerations that objects experience from our […]
NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.
It’s no longer just VR vs. AR. There is an alphabet soup of metaverse acronyms, often used imprecisely. So, what do they all mean?
“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”
Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
For people with hard-to-treat depression, a non-invasive technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can provide relief.
With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That’s not the full story.
The pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc., is the Fibonacci sequence. It shows up all over nature. But what’s the full explanation behind it?
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called “cartophilately.”
Known as orphaned planets, rogue planets, or planets without parent stars, these “outliers” might be the most common planet of all.
Up until 2002, we thought that the heaviest stable element was bismuth: #83 on the periodic table. That’s absolutely no longer the case.
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.
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.
Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.
Planets are either rocky, like Earth, or gas-rich, like Neptune, with no in-between. What are the different types of planets that exist in the Universe? If all you could see […]