The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.
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A strange object found in the desert has prompted worldwide speculation.
When we limit the clash of ideas, we ultimately hinder progress for the entire society.
The last image puts it all in perspective. Compared to what we find in our Solar System, galaxies are truly enormous. The Sun may be 109 times the diameter of […]
“Our mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food technology by 2035,” said Patrick O. Brown at the 2020 Web Summit.
Solar geoengineering ideas could weaken storms in both hemispheres, scientists find.
Did the 20th century bring a breakthrough in how children are treated?
For the cosmos, it’s all too easy being green. Stars come in a wide variety of colors, but never green. Stars form in a wide variety of sizes, colors and masses, […]
About 97.5 percent of people who develop symptoms will do so within 11.5 days, according to the new study.
How many potentially habitable planets are there? We sincerely don’t know. One of the most compelling scientific goals humanity has set for itself is to find extraterrestrial life: biological activity originating […]
The 40th edition of the Starts With A Bang Podcast features Astronomer John O’Meara, the first pristine matter ever seen, and a 15-meter space telescope proposal! One of the great […]
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 […]
Even 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, we can reconstruct the first 3 minutes. About 100 years ago, we began to truly understand the nature of the Universe for the […]
A newly studied hallucinogenic substance has shown signs of treating mental health conditions more efficiently than psilocybin.
A new study pushes back on psychiatry industry talking points.
‘The Broad and Narrow Way’ helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.
The Big Bang is our accepted origin of the Universe. But is there another possibility? Since the mid-1960s and the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background, the Big Bang has […]
It’s one thing to find a galaxy that “shouldn’t exist.” It’s quite another to learn why it does. Above a certain size, spiral galaxies shouldn’t exist. A single major merger — where two […]
Her husband died in 2009 of the disease.
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. […]
Misinformation is rampant—but it is the Internet.
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 […]
Explosives sent to addresses linked to former Vice President Joe Biden and actor Robert De Niro were similar to bombs delivered to other political figures this week, officials said.
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 […]
Project to map global ‘species richness’ highlights the variety of biodiversity itself
The ‘People Map of the United States’ zooms in on America’s obsession with celebrity
Three scientist friends, working separately, share the prestigious prize.
FDA guidelines say men can’t donate blood if they’ve had sex with another man in the past 12 months.
Can the duo make plant-based chicken taste “finger lickin’ good”?
Our Universe is 13.8 billion years old, and our Sun formed about 2/3rds of the way through. Here’s what came before it. When it comes to the great cosmic question of […]