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The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, but doesn’t have the earliest sunrise or the latest sunset. Here’s why. The length of a day on planet Earth might […]
We’re too afraid to voice our complaints, and for good reason — it often doesn’t go well.
What do the inventions of the future look like?
When we split something into its most fundamental, indivisible components, are we truly seeing something that’s point-like, or is there a finite minimum size? Imagine that you wanted to know what […]
Hawking radiation should really be happening, but black holes are farther from decaying than ever before. Black holes are, in many ways, the most extreme objects that will ever exist in […]
The state joins Washington, D.C. in eliminating a predatory system that preys upon low-income people and favors the wealthy.
We often discuss what the minimum wage does to the economy, but rarely do we discuss what it does to people.
The “green” proposal would bring a 21st-century update to the 850-year-old cathedral.
The dream of space travel has been usurped by superficiality.
The transition across a quantum barrier is known as quantum tunneling, and the amount of time it takes for such a transition to occur had never been measured before. For […]
Just because you can design an experiment to test for something doesn’t mean you should trust the results. Is there another Universe out there? The Universe we know and inhabit, the […]
Few scientific ideas have been as polarizing as string theory. There are good reasons to both love it and hate it. String theory is perhaps the most controversial big idea in […]
A passenger on a California freeway shot a video of a Tesla driver dozing off at the wheel.
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The flying rotorcraft drone is set to land on Saturn’s largest moon in 2034.
Today, our observable Universe extends for 46 billion light-years in all directions. But early on, things were much smaller. There are few things we can conceive of that are as mind-bogglingly […]
Elite organizations tend to get conspiracy theorists going.
They experience reality differently than we do.
If quantum gravity is right, these gravitational ripples must be more than waves; they must be particles, too. Back in February of 2016, LIGO made an announcement that changed our […]
The origin story for our Universe got a major revision nearly 40 years ago. Time to catch up. 13.8 billion years ago, all the matter and energy contained within our Universe […]
Scientific discovery often happens when you least expect it. But no one could’ve expected this. Imagine that you’re a scientist, going out on a limb to design and build an experiment […]
If all forms of energy experience gravitation, then why does dark energy make the expansion accelerate instead of slow down? Of all the revolutionary discoveries that we’ve made about the Universe, […]
The 2020 presidential candidate said companies like Amazon should “pay their fair share” as automation begins to displace human workers.
With tens of thousands of satellites requiring AI-control to avoid collisions, a single solar flare could everything. Over the next few years, the night sky and the volume of space […]
Yet another study shows the potential efficacy of psychedelics in treating addiction.
Social distancing won’t be easy, but science shows us how to make it more manageable.
Cranston won his second Tony Award for portraying Howard Beale in the play Network.
The 116th Congress is set to break records in term of diversity among its lawmakers, though those changes are coming almost entirely from Democrats.