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The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]
The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
The Crab Nebula goes back to 1054, opening a window into our cosmic past. On July 4, 1054, Chinese astronomers recorded a “guest star” in the Taurus constellation. A ‘guest star’ […]
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An MIT system uses wireless signals to measure in-home appliance usage to better understand health tendencies.
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If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves decay? There are certain things in the Universe that, if you leave them alone for long enough, they’ll eventually decay away. […]
It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.
Extraterrestrial life should arise fairly easily. But intelligence is another matter entirely. Planet Earth has been around for the past 4.5 billion years or so: about the last third of […]
If you want to know what the Universe is like, you have to look at it in the right way. Only by observing it can we know what the Universe is […]
One image can give over 100 times the data we now get from Hubble. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, revealed the previously unseen Universe. The most distant galaxy ever […]
And can we devise an experiment to tell, even when we aren’t looking? One of the most bizarre aspects of quantum physics is that the fundamental entities that make up the […]
Unlike most articles that are titled with a question, the answer isn’t automatically “no.” Announced on January 6, 2020, NASA’s TESS mission has just discovered its first Earth-sized, habitable zone […]
California’s Bobcat Fire has reached Mount Wilson Observatory’s doorstep. 100 years ago, our understanding of the Universe was very different from what it is today. Einstein’s General Relativity, our theory […]
Scientists confirm that slow blinks are an effective way to connect with a cat.
“The results change the perception of who a Viking actually was,” said project leader Professor Eske Willerslev.
The microbes that eventually produced the planet’s oxygen had to breathe something, after all.
All stars will eventually die. But we’ve never seen ones die like this before. When you look up at the sky, most of the points of light we see appear to […]
It doesn’t help that Hollywood has cast the ‘coder’ as a socially challenged, type-first-think-later hacker, inevitably white and male.
New prototype Petri dishes let ordinary scientists in on the advanced technology.
While it’s always been a boon to Popeye’s “muskles,” it looks like spinach may also have a role to play in clean future batteries.
“You dream about these kinds of moments when you’re a kid,” said lead paleontologist David Schmidt.
NASA’s SOFIA mission is upgraded and back in action, and the Cigar Galaxy makes a perfect target. In theory, cold, neutral gas is the key to stars and galaxies. A visualization […]
Most people believe themselves to be less at risk from COVID-19 than others similar to them, according to a recent UCL survey conducted in the U.S.
On Friday, the moon will pass through the Earth’s outer shadow, known as the penumbra.
Forgetting them, at any step, can lead to unscientific conclusions. No one, not even the smartest among us, were competent scientists from the outset. The concept of science is simple […]
Vaccines find more success in development than any other kind of drug, but have been relatively neglected in recent decades.
Crows have their own version of the human cerebral cortex.
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.