In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.
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In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that even black holes don’t live forever, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate. Here’s how.
If someone can make you feel insecure, incomplete, and inadequate, they then can present themselves as the solution you need.
The Universe gravitates so that normal matter and General Relativity alone can’t explain it. Here’s why dark matter beats modified gravity.
From ancient Greek cosmology to today’s mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, explore the relentless quest to understand the Universe’s invisible forces.
If there are three neutrino species, all with different masses, then how is energy conserved when they oscillate from one flavor to another?
Studies suggest that meditation can quiet the restless brain.
Clear communication is good for business and life — but compelling communication can take you to another level.
To answer any physical question, you must ask the Universe itself. But what happens when the answers aren’t around anymore?
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.
Omer Bartov, who spent decades studying the unspeakable horrors of genocide, shares how his studies have impacted his own mental health.
Unfortunately, the Lunar Ark project is an idea more at home in science fiction than science fact.
It is time to give the Russian cosmologist the credit he deserves.
The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.
There could be variables beyond the ones we’ve identified and know how to measure. But they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness.
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton’s second law.
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
From hunter-gathers to desk jockeys, we work best when short, intense sessions are followed by lighter fare.
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
Fathers’ brains adjust their structure and function to parenthood.
For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we know its distance, at any time, to within millimeters.
It’s estimated that one-in-three women and one-in-five men have an episode of major depression by the age of 65.
Creativity and achievement require balancing hard work with the restful power of calm.
Do we still remember what we learned in the 1940s?
It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it’s a losing strategy for elimination.
In history, every major technological advance has been used, for good and bad.
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.
Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.