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The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.

Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.

She’s the reason you’re able to work and chat from home.

Science was never the same after meeting ‘the particle who lived.’ Back in the early 1930s, there were only a few known fundamental particles that made up the Universe. If you […]

In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?

The ancient Greeks were obsessed with geometry, which may have formed the basis of their philosophical cosmology.

Lovers are parted from lovers, (grand)parents from children, families from their dead.

The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]

It uses radio waves to pinpoint items, even when they’re hidden from view.

The Hubble Space Telescope, 32 years after its launch, broke the all-time record for most distant star. It won’t do better.

Yet, if they only obey the rules that we know, there’s no way to explain why. One of the greatest puzzles in all of physics is that the laws of nature — as […]

Looking probably isn’t something you need to practice. People believe they can apprehend a painting at a glance. They read coworkers’ messages and assume they understand a situation. Or they […]

The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.

Particle physics needs a new collider to supersede the Large Hadron Collider. Muons, not electrons or protons, might hold the key.

Whatever’s lurking out there, it isn’t all, or even mostly, normal matter. When it comes to the Universe, it’s only natural to wonder what, exactly, it is that makes everything up. […]

Science is an ongoing flirtation with the unknown.

It rotates on its axis, revolves around the Sun, moves throughout the Milky Way, and gets carried by our galaxy all throughout space.

Or is ‘new space’ created in between the gaps of the ‘old’ space? It’s been almost 100 years since humanity first reached a revolutionary conclusion about our Universe: space itself doesn’t […]

A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.

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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 […]

All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.

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. […]

While other factors exist, sexual prowess appears to have helped determine the role of Protoceratops frills.

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 […]

The European currency features buildings that didn’t exist, until Spijkenisse made them in concrete

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 […]

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 […]