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 […]
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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.
Fintech companies are using elements of video games to make personal finance more fun. But does it work, and what are the risks?
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.
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 […]
The odds are slim, but the consequences would be devastating. Here’s what would happen, plus how to avoid it.
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.
Researchers figure out the average temperatures of the last ice age on Earth.
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 […]
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 […]
Using DNA from samples of extinct flowers, synthetic biologists managed to approximate long-lost floral scents.
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 […]
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 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 […]
Everything else in the universe is either a particle or field. Dark energy behaves as neither, and it may be a property inherent to space itself.
A single lifetime is more than enough to take you to the limits of the Universe. Right now, there are only three things limiting how far our spacecrafts can take […]
1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Even before the Big Bang, energetic radiation was always present. When it comes to the physical Universe, the notion of “nothing” may truly be possible only in theory, not in […]
If you want to find life in the Universe, this is how you do it. When it comes to uncovering the ultimate truths about reality, we can only reap what we […]
Think there are habitable super-Earths out there? Think again. Here in our Solar System, we have two very distinct types of planets: small, terrestrial, rocky worlds, with thin (or no) atmospheres […]
Britons could start receiving the vaccine within days.
Business leaders know they must prepare for technological upheavals in the years ahead. But keeping up-to-date on new technologies—to say nothing of understanding their complexities and forecasting those shifts—is an […]