A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests?
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“I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient.”
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One hypothesis says that sleep helps “clean” the brain of damaged molecules and toxic proteins.
Forget little green men: These scientists say we should be more worried about little green germs.
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.
Think of a combination of immersive virtual reality, an online role-playing game, and the internet.
It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
Planets can create nuclear power on their own, naturally, without any intelligence or technology. Earth already did: 1.7 billion years ago.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.
Are space and time real like atoms are, or is spacetime just a calculational tool? When most of us think about the Universe, we think about the material objects that […]
New research reveals that the face can affect the shape of the brain through a complex “cross-talk” between the two structures.
The brilliant mind who discovered the spacetime solution for rotating black holes claims singularities don’t physically exist. Is he right?
Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.
You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
Whether they’re gas giants or rocky planets makes all the difference for life. Over the past 30 years, we went from not knowing if there were planets like ours around other […]
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
As important as his Nobel Prize-winning technical accomplishments was his ability to communicate to the public.
And the one step we can take to show extraterrestrials we’re figuring it out. Every year, Earth’s meteor showers accomplish two important tasks. This composite photograph shows a large number of […]
“It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research.”
For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.
Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.
Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
The tiny swimmers appear to transmit signals that “persuade” the female body to have a baby.
It peaks the nights of August 11–13, but it’s no longer the year’s most reliable meteor shower. Every year, beginning in mid-July, planet Earth commences passing through an enormous debris […]
The key? A computational flattening algorithm.