All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.
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Three of our dimensions are spatial and one is temporal, but could there be more? From any point in space, you are free to move in any direction you choose. No […]
While other factors exist, sexual prowess appears to have helped determine the role of Protoceratops frills.
Once only dark energy remains, empty space still won’t be completely empty. Imagine, if you dare, the very end of the Universe. The stars — past, present, and future — have all burned out. […]
Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.
Has all this happened before, and will all this happen once again? There are only a few questions, when we ask them, that force us to reckon with the fundamental nature […]
Diogenes was no doubt odd, but Cynicism might just help our overcrowded lives.
The European currency features buildings that didn’t exist, until Spijkenisse made them in concrete
We’ve almost got the entire story. James Webb will put the last piece into place. In all of science, there are really only two ways that something can be “known” to […]
What makes something a hit or a flop? Sit and ponder that one, and you’ll find it’s a stumper. At first, the answer seems obvious: popularity. That’s not quite right […]
If you want to get the Universe we see, a multiverse comes along for the ride. When we look out at the Universe today, it simultaneously tells us two stories about […]
The attack on the Capitol forces us to confront an existential question about privacy.
How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the “Genetic Pressure” series.
The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton’s laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn’t.
Fintech companies are using elements of video games to make personal finance more fun. But does it work, and what are the risks?
The odds are slim, but the consequences would be devastating. Here’s what would happen, plus how to avoid it.
If you ask your maps app to find “restaurants that aren’t McDonald’s,” you won’t like the result.
You’ll never have to pay for an image again.
The act of observing doesn’t just determine a previously indeterminate state, but can destroy information, too. Imagine that you’re a scientist attempting to understand reality at a fundamental level. How […]
A small percentage of people who consume psychedelics experience strange lingering effects, sometimes years after they took the drug.
No. But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.
The Big Theoretical Physics Problem At The Center Of The ‘Muon g-2’ Puzzle In early April, 2021, the experimental physics community announced an enormous victory: they had measured the muon’s magnetic […]
Take a journey through the maze of interpretations of one of the most famous paintings in history.
Time always moves in the same direction, but what if the Universe were contracting? As we step forward in time, a number of things always seem to happen together. Objects […]
Using DNA from samples of extinct flowers, synthetic biologists managed to approximate long-lost floral scents.
Researchers figure out the average temperatures of the last ice age on Earth.
Whether you write it 6/28 or 28/6, it’s perfection either way. Perfection might be a wonderful thing to strive for in life, but achieving it is very rare. In the realm […]
Amid such suffering, people need some joy.
Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]