Since 1962, humanity has been sending messages into space with the intent to make contact with intelligent extraterrestrials. Are those efforts worth the risks?
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Deliveries of the $250k Lightyear 0 will start in November 2022.
In ancient Rome, collective bathing was the norm. In the West today, it’s the exception — and that’s too bad.
“I thought, why not direct these high-power beams, instead of into fusion plasma, down into rock and vaporize the hole?”
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?
Lord Kelvin is thought to have said there was nothing new to discover in physics. His real view was the opposite.
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Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
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This is a perversion of justice.
Glimpse into the ancient Maya empire through the writing of its own inhabitants.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.
Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?
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JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it’s 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.
“At that time, it was just a wild idea, […] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”
Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.