There’s a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.
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Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.
Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what’s known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There’s a profound reason why.
In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.
And what if both parties are skilled at mirroring each other? Will it produce a stalemate?
Bears, chimps, or humans? A track of five poorly preserved footsteps at Laetoli has puzzled paleontologists for decades. Now, a research paper from Nature claims to have solved the mystery.
What can elite athletes teach you about how to win?
“You gotta know when to fold ’em.”
Easily distracted? Try a “distractibility delay.”
We have pipelines for oil and natural gas. Why not water?
A 12-year study shows that these large lemurs have a sophisticated sense of rhythm.
For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?
Forget about the terawatt lasers we’re making on Earth. This natural one is thousands of times more powerful than the Sun.
Unplugging only ignores the hard work of overcoming your distractions.
The pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc., is the Fibonacci sequence. It shows up all over nature. But what’s the full explanation behind it?
A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
At four million solar masses, the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole is quite small for a galaxy its size. Did we lose the original?
For people with hard-to-treat depression, a non-invasive technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) can provide relief.
Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.
If our nearest star has an Earth-like planet, here’s how we’ll see it. As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization […]
They are expected to be cheaper to build and even more reliable than today’s nuclear plants.
Psychologists W. Keith Campbell, (Ph.D.) and Carolyn Crist explain why narcissists rise to power and how to make sure your support is going to someone making effective, positive change.
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
When constructed well, post-training survey questions can provide a wealth of information that helps guide future design decisions.
When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas.
In physics, we reduce things to their elementary, fundamental components, and build emergent things out of them. That’s not the full story.
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way’s central black hole looks like.
A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.