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Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
If there really is another version of you out there in a parallel universe, what can that teach us about reality?
In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.
There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe’s expansion. They disagree. “Early dark energy” might save us.
We’ve only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
We live in a four-dimensional Universe, where matter and energy curve the fabric of spacetime. But time sure is different from space!
Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.
At all distances, the Universe expands along our line-of-sight. But we can’t measure side-to-side motions; could it be rotating as well?
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.
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 […]
Differences in the way that the Hubble constant—which measures the rate of cosmic expansion—are measured have profound implications for the future of cosmology.
The beauty of this magical medicine called silence is that it is available to all of us, even in cities, if only we care to listen.
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
Do they have real, observable effects, or are they merely calculational tools?
For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?
It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.
Democritus also did not believe in free will but was still known as the “laughing philosopher.”
Parasites aren’t limited to just worms and ticks. Even some plants like to feed off others — and they perhaps could help fight invasive species.
Is the time crystal really an otherworldly revolution, leveraging quantum computing that will change physics forever?
Theoretical physicist Geoffrey West explains the science behind a unique hypothesis.
The secret ingredient is violence, and it just might indicate that “moonmoons” aren’t as uncommon as most astronomers think.
It might have been Einstein’s greatest blunder, but it’s our leading theory today. One of the most mysterious components in the entire Universe is dark energy, which — if we’re being honest with […]
When you mix science with speculation, you get speculation. But the underlying science is still real. Whenever you hear the phrase, “it’s just a theory,” it should trigger alarm bells in […]
How slight differences could have forever changed our cosmic history. 13.8 billion years ago, what we know today as our Universe began with the hot Big Bang. Filled with matter, antimatter […]
Ernst Chladni proved that sound can be seen, and developed a technique of visualizing vibrations on a metal plate.
Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]
The inside of every black hole leads to the birth of a new Universe. Could our Universe have arisen from one?
The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton’s laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn’t.
Every year, scientists like George Church get better at editing the genomes of human beings. But will genome editing help or hurt us?