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Don’t wait until Christmas to gift a telescope this year. All throughout the year, two bright lights have stood out in the post-sunset skies. Earlier this year, on March 31, 2020, […]
The drive would provide enough thrust for a spacecraft to travel near the speed of light using only electricity, says physicist Jim Woodward.
We still don’t know how the information encoded onto it gets out. No matter what you do in the Universe, its overall entropy always increases. Even when we put things in […]
On the list of animals at risk are several endangered species.
A recent clinical trial in Brazil highlights the dangers of two potential COVID-19 treatments: chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.
One look at the uncertainties and the assumptions changes the story tremendously. Is there intelligent life out there in the Milky Way beyond our own Solar System? If so, how […]
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
And do our black holes give birth to baby Universes? When it comes to our understanding of the Universe, the 20th century was full of surprises. A little over 100 […]
To get a sense of faraway places, these ‘atlases’ let the locals give you their perspective.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]
Regularities, which we associate with laws of nature, require an explanation.
Logic puzzles can teach reasoning in a fun way that doesn’t feel like work.
NASA’s New Horizons is the most distant technologically advanced observatory ever. And that makes all the difference. When you look at an object that’s very distant from you, how well […]
This map of Europe’s 20 most populous islands holds a few surprises and unlocks a truckload of trivia.
There’s a million things we haven’t done. But just you wait. The Universe as we know it began some 13.8 billion years ago with the onset of the hot Big Bang. […]
Can we end world hunger by 2030? Thanks to a new program, the data for it is all there.
All the things that surround us and make us up weren’t always here. But where did it all come from? The Universe, as we see it today, sure is full of […]
The images and our best computer models don’t agree.
The problem is that what’s true of magnets is not at all true of romance.
New research conducted on the brains of mice suggest it may be possible to “switch off” particular food cravings.
To war is human – and Neanderthals were very like us.
And the first sci-fi weapon the Space Force gets is….a device to scramble communications?
A team of researchers have discovered the brain rhythmic activity that can split us from reality.
Thought expriments are great tools, but do they always do what we want them to?
You’re gonna die, cloud! All stars, even our Sun, will someday eventually die. After burning on the main sequence for billions of years, the Sun will expand into a red giant, […]
If we’re migrating slowly away, is our speed changing, too? Every year, planet Earth completes one revolution around the Sun while spinning on its axis. On a year-to-year basis, our […]
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