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 […]
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The researchers trained the model on tens of thousands of samples of coughs, as well as spoken words.
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 […]
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 […]
More than 70% of college students procrastinate
Researchers make the case for “deep evidential regression.”
A new study suggests that the type of alarm clock you use might affect the severity of sleep inertia you experience.
By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.
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 […]
Spending time in green spaces seems to yield many health benefits, most of which researchers are only beginning to understand.
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 […]
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, […]
Every power source involves trade-offs. Given the challenges of increasing demand and climate change, what is the future of energy?
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.
Time runs backward there. Other physicists are not convinced.
The quest for the ultimate vacuum just got taken to the next level thanks to a new technique: the quantum squeezer. One of the most understated frontiers in all of […]
As long as it remains operational, we’ll have a chance to conduct groundbreaking science with it. In the history of spaceflight, only five spacecraft ever launched by humanity possess enough energy […]
The original Hubble Deep Field truly showed us what the Universe looks like. Later this month, the Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate its 30th anniversary. This photo of the Hubble Space […]
Apparently the Catholic Church is a small business.
Teaching community organizers via WhatsApp yields encouraging results in South Africa, according to MIT Governance Lab research.
Someday, presumably, we’ll go back to our lives. Our furry buddies will wonder where we went.
Research suggests that aging affects a brain circuit critical for learning and decision-making.
There’s more light than we can account for, and we’ve just measured it robustly for the first time. When we look out at the darkest night skies available on Earth, even […]
Physicists propose using time crystals to bring about a quantum computing revolution.
If dark energy gets stronger with time, our fate could be an utter catastrophe. When it comes to the entire Universe, one of the biggest existential questions we’re capable of […]
Are you mentally exhausted? Here’s how to tell (and what to do about it).
If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]
Have we already found dark matter? It may be hiding in existing data, says a study.
The Sun produces a wide variety of particles and radiation throughout it, but all of its neutrinos are produced in the core: where nuclear reactions take place. The various reactions […]
With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]