Demanding appropriate levels of skepticism and scrutiny isn’t cruelty, but rather demonstrates scientific integrity and intellectual honesty. Every few months, a novel headline will fly across the world, claiming to […]
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A new paper claims that scientists might be wildly mistaken about the density — and therefore, the shape — of our universe.
Scientific surprises are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science. When you’re a scientist, getting an unexpected result can be a double-edged sword. The best […]
In 2017, researchers believed they had found evidence for the elusive Majorana fermion. Now, a new study found that the exotic class of particles may still be confined to theory.
If you think about the way a gravitational wave detector works, you might encounter a paradox. Here’s the solution. One of the greatest scientific achievements in all of human history […]
Scientists exploring human neurons directly learn some remarkable things.
Scientists make an important discovery for the future of computing.
Scientists may have seen a way to cure a maddening symptom of hearing loss.
India finishes last of 60 countries in environment and sustainability, as ranked by the expats who work there.
LIGO just announced the second neutron star-neutron star merger ever seen in gravitational waves. It doesn’t match the first. On August 17, 2017, an event occurred that forever changed how we […]
The Standard Model and General Relativity can’t be all there is. But how will we discover what lies beyond them? One of the biggest problems with physics is that, apart from […]
Cook’s commencement speech at Tulane University urges students to take action.
Will Storr has written a masterful guide to writing with “The Science of Storytelling.”
It should be just as sticky (or non-sticky) as normal matter. Here’s how we know. Not only here on Earth, but everywhere in the Universe that we look, we find structures […]
Between the noise and frustration, we’re suffering more than ever.
Over the past 30 years, we’ve revolutionized what we know about the Universe. But we couldn’t have done it without these lessons. On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope rocketed […]
Until about a decade ago, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars.
Just because you can design an experiment to test for something doesn’t mean you should trust the results. Is there another Universe out there? The Universe we know and inhabit, the […]
French newspapers report that the trial hasn’t lived up to expectations.
Before you judge someone’s personality based in their playlist, you may want to read the results of this study.
Twain and Tesla had similar passions and an amusing friendship.
These seven subjects don’t teach toward the test, but they will help students lead happier, healthier, and smarter lives.
In 2018, The New York Times published a comprehensive expose on the burgeoning crypto movement that detailed the luxurious lives of the newly crypto rich. The article, aptly titled, “Everyone […]
Results support Einstein’s theory and the idea that black holes have no “hair.”
LIGO and Virgo have now detected a total of 11 binary merger events. But exactly 0 were in the Milky Way. Here’s why. One of the most spectacular recent advances in […]
And what might we learn as we collect new, never-before-seen data? If you took one of history’s top scientists from 100 years ago and dropped them into today’s world, what […]
New statistical analyses show that human-driven climate change is a virtual certainty.
A breakthrough app for ultrasonic squeak analysis.
LIGO, here on Earth, has exquisitely-precise distances its lasers travel. With three spacecrafts in motion, how could LISA work? Since it began operating in 2015, advanced LIGO has ushered in an […]
A comprehensive interdisciplinary paper removes any doubt that orcas don’t belong in marine parks and zoos.