After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way’s central black hole looks like.
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Think of the nicest person you know. The person who would fit into any group configuration, who no one can dislike, or who makes a room warmer and happier just […]
Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.
His grandfather, a member of Oppenheimer’s atomic bomb team, foresaw the potential of nuclear energy to power cities — not destroy them.
Now that it’s fully commissioned, the James Webb Space Telescope begins its exploration of the Universe. Here are its first science images!
It’s like a little magnetic “nom, nom.”
The EmDrive turns out to be the “um…” drive after all, as a new study dubs any previous encouraging EmDrive results “false positives.”
From “shell shock” to “combat fatigue,” the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
Research has shown the benefits of mindfulness, but the current mindfulness craze cannot deliver on its overhyped promises.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
Digitized logbooks from the 1800s reveal a steep decline in strike rate for whalers.
Insomnia is the product of mental or emotional pressure.
All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]
5 years ago, LIGO detected our first gravitational waves here on Earth. Next decade, LISA will start seeing them from space. When it comes to gravitational waves, our terrestrial laser interferometers […]
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
It’s not the caffeine; it’s the people.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
The researchers trained the model on tens of thousands of samples of coughs, as well as spoken words.
A small percentage of people who consume psychedelics experience strange lingering effects, sometimes years after they took the drug.
Only one dark matter detection experiment ever gave a positive result, in conflict with all the others. This could be why. For multiple generations now, it’s been apparent to astronomers that […]
A new study suggests that the type of alarm clock you use might affect the severity of sleep inertia you experience.
And which ones are probably examples where we’ve fooled ourselves? Every once in a while — multiple times per year — a new research finding fails to line up with our theoretical expectations. In […]
Researchers make the case for “deep evidential regression.”
More than 70% of college students procrastinate
By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Spending time in green spaces seems to yield many health benefits, most of which researchers are only beginning to understand.
We can describe what we see happening, but we don’t understand why. Despite our vast cosmic knowledge, enormous unknowns remain. The quantum fluctuations inherent to space, stretched across the Universe […]
You never know what you’re going to find when you look somewhere new for the first time. Approximately 4600 feet (1400 meters) underground, beneath the Italian mountain known as Gran Sasso, […]
Which is good, because if they do, they violate the cosmological principle. In theory, the Universe should be the same, on average, everywhere. A simulation of the large-scale structure of […]