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 […]
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Particle physics needs a new collider to supersede the Large Hadron Collider. Muons, not electrons or protons, might hold the key.
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The Hubble Space Telescope, 32 years after its launch, broke the all-time record for most distant star. It won’t do better.
Buildings don’t have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.
All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.
The European currency features buildings that didn’t exist, until Spijkenisse made them in concrete
The attack on the Capitol forces us to confront an existential question about privacy.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Diogenes was no doubt odd, but Cynicism might just help our overcrowded lives.
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 […]
It rotates on its axis, revolves around the Sun, moves throughout the Milky Way, and gets carried by our galaxy all throughout space.
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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 […]
Researchers figure out the average temperatures of the last ice age on Earth.
If you ask your maps app to find “restaurants that aren’t McDonald’s,” you won’t like the result.
Fintech companies are using elements of video games to make personal finance more fun. But does it work, and what are the risks?
Take a journey through the maze of interpretations of one of the most famous paintings in history.
Amid such suffering, people need some joy.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
The theoretical reasons to expect it are compelling, but the technology required to detect it is unfathomable. All throughout our galaxy, millions of black holes of a variety of masses […]
Less than 1% of all venture capital funding in the US is given to Black entrepreneurs. Now is the time for that to change.
The odds are slim, but the consequences would be devastating. Here’s what would happen, plus how to avoid it.
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 […]