To get a sense of faraway places, these ‘atlases’ let the locals give you their perspective.
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On the list of animals at risk are several endangered species.
NASA’s New Horizons is the most distant technologically advanced observatory ever. And that makes all the difference. When you look at an object that’s very distant from you, how well […]
Don’t wait until Christmas to gift a telescope this year. All throughout the year, two bright lights have stood out in the post-sunset skies. Earlier this year, on March 31, 2020, […]
A deeper appreciation for science and less unnecessary spending could be in our future.
We still don’t know how the information encoded onto it gets out. No matter what you do in the Universe, its overall entropy always increases. Even when we put things in […]
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And do our black holes give birth to baby Universes? When it comes to our understanding of the Universe, the 20th century was full of surprises. A little over 100 […]
Logic puzzles can teach reasoning in a fun way that doesn’t feel like work.
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
More energy means more potential for discovery, but we’re topped out. If your goal is to discover something completely novel, you have to look in a way that no one else […]
The “overview effect,” experienced by astronauts when they view the Earth from outer space, irrevocably changes your perspective as a human.
And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]
There’s a million things we haven’t done. But just you wait. The Universe as we know it began some 13.8 billion years ago with the onset of the hot Big Bang. […]
All the things that surround us and make us up weren’t always here. But where did it all come from? The Universe, as we see it today, sure is full of […]
And the first sci-fi weapon the Space Force gets is….a device to scramble communications?
New research conducted on the brains of mice suggest it may be possible to “switch off” particular food cravings.
Regularities, which we associate with laws of nature, require an explanation.
The problem is that what’s true of magnets is not at all true of romance.
The images and our best computer models don’t agree.
Can we end world hunger by 2030? Thanks to a new program, the data for it is all there.
This map of Europe’s 20 most populous islands holds a few surprises and unlocks a truckload of trivia.
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A team of researchers have discovered the brain rhythmic activity that can split us from reality.
To war is human – and Neanderthals were very like us.
Thought expriments are great tools, but do they always do what we want them to?
If dark matter is fundamentally different from the normal matter we know, there should be a way to test it. Here are the results. Dark matter — despite the enormous indirect evidence for […]
Exploring how a small change in your DNA sequence can make you a natural blonde.