It might not feel that way, but a 95% dark Universe really is the best game in town. No matter how much we might try and hide it, there’s an enormous […]
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Sure, we’re warming now. But will this continue, or will natural factors change things? According to our best understanding of Earth’s climate, the global average temperature has increased significantly over the […]
Why does dark matter, if it doesn’t dissipate energy, become gravitationally bound at all? One of the most puzzling components of the Universe has to be dark matter. Although we have […]
Dark matter must gravitate, so why couldn’t the graviton solve it? One of the most puzzling observations about the Universe is that there isn’t enough matter — at least, matter that we know […]
A biologist-reporter investigates his fungal namesake.
Anastasia lives alone in perfect harmony with nature – or so the story goes – and nature serves her devotedly.
The pandemic has given us an early glimpse at how truly disruptive the fourth industrial revolution may be, and the measures we’ll need to support human dignity.
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
Hundreds more are documented in Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks.
In her book The Art of Rest, one researcher conducted a thorough analysis of the top 10 activities we find most restful.
In General Relativity, the fabric of space doesn’t remain static over time. Everything else depends on the details we measure. If there’s one thing we’ve experimentally determined to be a constant […]
It doesn’t have to be a science-fiction dream. For as long as human beings have been watching the night sky, we’ve dreamed of visiting other worlds and truly seeing what’s […]
It’s fundamentally different from space. Here’s how. Here’s a question that most of us have been asked at some point in our lives, “what’s the shortest distance between two points?” By […]
We’ve argued over ideology for far too long. It’s time to pick a better route to prosperity. In every civilized society around the world, there’s a trade-off that must be […]
If AIs can generate photos of people who don’t exist, what else can they imagine?
Is there a way for more human-centered algorithms to prevent potentially triggering interactions on social media?
Isolation and empathy are by no means mutually exclusive.
The Data Atlas of the World specialises in simple yet revealing maps of the world.
The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.
Although everyone knows that coal-based energy is a thing of the past, declarations about nuclear power plants somehow do not want to enter into force.
Eric Weinstein says that we need to rethink the current scientific model to allow for more dreaming.
For over 50 years, it’s been the scientifically accepted theory describing the origin of the Universe. It’s time we all learned its truths. The Universe we know today, filled with stars […]
Today’s agriculture workers face 21 days of heat that exceed safety standards. That number will double by 2050.
He’s also credited by some as having coined the phrase “user-friendly.”
Somehow, the Universe began with just the right mix of cosmic ingredients to make life possible. It sure doesn’t seem likely. When you take stock of what’s in the Universe on […]
There are only 3 populations of stars, but “generations” is a more complex question. When we look out at the stars in the Universe, we classify them into three different […]
We might live in a quantum Universe, but we’ll violate the principle of relativity if space is discrete. If you try and divide matter into smaller and smaller chunks, you’ll […]
With three colors and three anticolors, there aren’t actually nine gluons; only eight. One of the most puzzling features of the Universe is the strong nuclear force. Inside every proton or […]
Here’s why scary stories were once an integral part of Christmas Eve festivities.
Neo’s superhuman powers were only inside of The Matrix. The outside world offered a different reality.