Are atoms, humans, planets, and galaxies destined to expand, too? One of the most revolutionary discoveries of the past century was the fact that the Universe is not eternally static and […]
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Everyone loves a laugh now and then, except for most of the philosophers you’ve heard of.
Video meetings on the popular platform don’t seem to offer end-to-end encryption as advertised.
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
For many, 2020 will not be remembered as a “best of” much. We don’t need to repeat the reasons here; it’s sufficient to point out that a 100-year pandemic was […]
A study finds that while musical newbies exercise the brain’s so-called creative hemisphere, pros have moved on.
The anthropic principle has some fascinating scientific uses. And abuses, too. For thousands of years, humans have pondered the meaning of our existence. From philosophers who debated whether their minds could […]
Groundbreaking new research suggests gamma-ray bursts are caused by a star’s collapsing magnetic field.
“Superstar” firms have been lowering labor’s share of GDP in recent decades, a new study finds.
Over the coming decades, over 100,000 new satellites are expected. For countless millennia, whenever we were faced with a clear, cloudless, moonless night, all of humanity was able to witness […]
Understanding the math behind social distancing.
Study finds quantum entanglement could, in principle, give a slight advantage in the game of blackjack.
‘The Broad and Narrow Way’ helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.
It’s 92 billion light-years wide after just 13.8 billion years. And that’s just fine. If there’s one rule that people know about how fast things can move, it’s that there’s a […]
The Himalayan Kingdom best known for its concept of “Gross National Happiness.”
The author of “Auroville: The City Made of Dreams” talks about the difficulties of establishing (and writing about) utopian societies.
While Mars is known as a frozen, red planet today, it has all the evidence we could ask for of a watery past, lasting for approximately the first 1.5 billion […]
For the first time in many years, there’s currently a comet visible to the naked eye in Earth’s night sky: comet NEOWISE. For the first time in many years, there’s currently […]
The consequences of our climate-cooking habits will burden all future humans.
A new study pushes back on psychiatry industry talking points.
The definitive answer requires better, unbiased data. Despite all the advances that have occurred in human history, one extraordinary puzzle still remains right in our own backyard: we aren’t sure how […]
And can scientists even agree on what ‘nothing’ means? The more curious we get about the great cosmic unknowns, the more unanswered questions our investigations of the Universe will reveal. […]
Only 3% of physics graduates and 2% of astronomy graduates are Black. That’s got to change. In the late 1990s, about 5% of the approximately 4000 bachelor’s degrees in physics per […]
What speech is harmful, how do we know, and what do we do if we find out?
Does voting serve the collective good, or should we just not bother?
The virus is unlike anything many people have ever experienced.
Can the American government stop coronavirus spread? Its past actions speak volumes.
Zeno’s paradox stumped philosophers, mathematicians, and intellectuals for millennia. It took physics to finally solve it. The fastest human in the world, according to the Ancient Greek legend, was the heroine […]
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 […]