And, if we have one, how close are we to it? No matter which direction we look in, or how far away our telescopes and instruments are capable of seeing, the […]
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Planets can create nuclear power on their own, naturally, without any intelligence or technology. Earth already did: 1.7 billion years ago.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
If it weren’t for a subatomic quantum rule, our Universe would be vastly different. In many ways, our views of the distant Universe are the closest things we’ll ever get […]
Digitized logbooks from the 1800s reveal a steep decline in strike rate for whalers.
But the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope compels us to add, “so far.” Beginning with its 1990 launch, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized our conception of the Universe. This photo of […]
One hypothesis says that sleep helps “clean” the brain of damaged molecules and toxic proteins.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
Forget little green men: These scientists say we should be more worried about little green germs.
People may be more willing to get vaccinated when told how popular it is.
The odds are slim, but the consequences would be literally world-ending. There really is a chance of a black hole devouring the Earth.
For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.
Think of a combination of immersive virtual reality, an online role-playing game, and the internet.
Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.
The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST’s eyes, astronomers found so much more.
For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new paper says no, it’s 26.7 billion. How do we decide?
Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?
We’d like to think that judging people’s worth based on the shape of their head is a practice that’s behind us.
“It’s a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in that you can go in and do discovery-based research.”
In work and life, the rules of success are being redefined.
Safety through technology is no bad thing—Nietzsche himself sought doctors and medicines throughout his life—but it can become pathological.
Finding out how the Universe grew up was the biggest science goal of JWST. This ultra-early proto-galaxy cluster is one amazing discovery.
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
New research reveals that the face can affect the shape of the brain through a complex “cross-talk” between the two structures.
Are space and time real like atoms are, or is spacetime just a calculational tool? When most of us think about the Universe, we think about the material objects that […]
Whether they’re gas giants or rocky planets makes all the difference for life. Over the past 30 years, we went from not knowing if there were planets like ours around other […]
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?
As important as his Nobel Prize-winning technical accomplishments was his ability to communicate to the public.