In principle, the laws of physics are the same forwards and backwards. But in practice, time only runs in one direction. Most of the laws of physics are the same […]
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Austro-Japanese aristocrat Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi later concentrated on plans for Pan-Europe.
Russia urges villagers to leave nuclear fallout area and then tells them to come back.
If dark energy is causing the Universe to disappear, how can we still find and see ultra-distant stars and galaxies? In the 1920s, scientists discovered that the Universe was expandingbased […]
Over the past 30 years, we’ve revolutionized what we know about the Universe. But we couldn’t have done it without these lessons. On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope rocketed […]
As more data comes in, the puzzle gets deeper and deeper. Whenever you set out to solve a problem, there are a series of steps you have to take in order […]
Tragedy in art, from Ancient Greece to Breaking Bad, resists all our efforts to tie reality up in a neat bow, to draw some edifying lesson from it. Instead it confronts us with our own limitations, leaving us scrabbling in the rubble of certainty to figure out what’s next.
When you’re trying to peel back the veil obscuring the fundamental nature of matter, you have to look absolutely everywhere. Sometimes, the solution to a puzzle you’ve been stymied by […]
Fauna and flora refuse to go quietly into the Anthropocene.
NASA’s intrepid Curiosity rolls upward into Mars history.
Is the pessimism about jobs totally unwarented?
The coin depicts a black hole and one of the late physicist’s most important formulas.
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It’s telling about attempts to save the industry.
The diet claims that people with different blood types process their food differently. Does it pass muster?
The 17-year-old climate activist gets a lot of criticism online. Which of those critiques hold water?
And why Einstein’s quest for unification was doomed from the start. If you wanted to answer the question of what’s truly fundamental in this Universe, you’d need to investigate matter and […]
Everything on Earth is made of atoms and their building blocks. Without this one rule, they’d never make anything interesting. Take a look around you at everything on Earth. If […]
How different types of green space affect mental health.
Why do all of our virtual assistants have a female voice?
Here’s how to harness the sunlight, even if you’re sitting in an office all day.
An unexpectedly revealing find in Mongolia solves a longstanding riddle.
The more research conducted on psychedelics, the closer we get to new therapeutic models.
New technology could predict cancer up to 5 years in advance.
Three scientist friends, working separately, share the prestigious prize.
Yet interpersonal trust is at its lowest point in 50 years.
Most elderly individuals’ brains degrade over time, but some match — or even outperform — younger individuals on cognitive tests.
When the Universe expands, photons redshift to longer wavelengths and lower energies. So where does that energy go? Imagine the ultimate version of a toy Universe: it’s expanding, it’s full of […]
What could be better than “do unto others as you would have others do unto you”?
A fully programmable quantum computer that can outperform any classical computer is right at the edge of today’s technology. Earlier this month, a new story leaked out: Google, one of […]