We’ve found our first ones! The question is: how did they survive? Over the past 2 years, an exciting development has finally arisen: scientists have measured a large number of small, […]
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And, at some point, did the Milky Way lose ours? There are some 400 billion objects flying through the Milky Way galaxy with enough mass that — if they were all made of […]
Although most of the Universe’s mass is dark matter, which gravitates just as well as normal matter, it still can’t make black holes.
It occurred naturally, and scientists know this for certain. Starting in late 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, began infecting human beings for the very first time. Discovered in samples […]
Let noted cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker introduce you to psychology.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
Political partisanship might be a treatable condition.
We’re still not sure what the ultimate question is. Here are 5 excellent candidates. One of the most amusing stories in all of science fiction is Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s […]
1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
It might have been Einstein’s greatest blunder, but it’s our leading theory today. One of the most mysterious components in the entire Universe is dark energy, which — if we’re being honest with […]
And if it does strike us, how much damage will it cause? Will near-Earth asteroid Apophis strike us in 2068? Generically, asteroids under ~1 km in size are irregularly shaped, will […]
Jains believe that karma weighs the soul down. This can be overcome through extreme asceticism, in which one slowly withdraws from life.
That’s as fast as a bullet train in Japan.
This unsettling simulation shows how mucus-mist can rapidly spread in a grocery store.
Vaccines can be grown in and extracted from the leaves of plants.
If you can’t surpass it in a vacuum, try doing so in a medium instead. In our Universe, there are a few rules that everything must obey. Energy, momentum, and angular […]
A new study looks at how images of coffee’s origins affect the perception of its premiumness and quality.
Is there actually anything deserving of the term AI?
Alzheimer’s has proved difficult to treat. But solving the mystery of this ultra-rare frontotemporal dementia may unlock new understanding.
It’s how successful our current theories are. Some 500 years ago, there was one scientific phenomenon that was, without controversy, extremely well-understood: the motion of the celestial objects in the sky. […]
How different people react to threats of violence.
Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.
Bolsheviks planned to erect a towering monument to the socialist cause, but their quixotic ideas never got off the ground.
If dark matter exists in a large halo in our galaxy, made up of particles, then it’s passing through us constantly. But how much?
If you think you know how an astronomical nova works, buckle up. You’re in for a ride like you never expected.
The Metaverse could be the most dangerous tool of persuasion humanity has ever created.
There’s still hope for implicit bias training, research shows.
Researchers speculate the famous monument was one of the world’s first solar calendars, possibly inspired by trade with ancient Egyptians.
Is it groupthink? Or is there a deeper reason? In the early half of the 20th century, even after the discovery of the expanding Universe, physicists considered a wide variety of […]