In our Universe, all stable atomic nuclei have protons in them; there’s no stable “neutronium” at all. But what’s the reason why?
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As the Sun ages, it loses mass, causing Earth to spiral outward in its orbit. Will that cool the Earth down, or will other effects win out?
The Athenian rich paid their taxes because they craved the social success of being perceived as “useful.”
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something big.
Only the best physical theories outlast the minds that invented them. Throughout the 20th century, a number of discoveries revolutionized our Universe. The discovery of the interior structure of atoms as […]
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
If it weren’t for the intricate rules of quantum physics, we wouldn’t have formed neutral atoms “only” ~380,000 years after the Big Bang.
As the first Friedmann equation celebrates its 99th anniversary, it remains the one equation to describe our entire universe.
There are many things that separate science from ideology, politics, philosophy, or religion. Follow these 10 commandments to get it right.
According to neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi, no one can live a life free of emotional pain. We can only choose how those emotions empower us.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases. But that doesn’t mean it was zero at the start of the Big Bang.
The scientists are headed “straight to the FDA” to begin human trials.
Is the multiverse real? It’s one of the hottest questions in all of theoretical physics. We invited two astrophysicists to join the debate.
“When you feel the isolation setting in at times, you have to reframe your mindset.”
Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.
The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Even in the very early Universe, there were heavy, supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. How did they get so big so fast?
Before there were planets, stars, and galaxies, before even neutral atoms or stable protons, there was the Big Bang. How did we prove it?
Mathematically, it is a monster, but we can understand it in plain English.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
Some of them have survived the wilds of space for billions of years.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.
Two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe disagree. What’s the root cause of this Hubble tension?
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
Trauma happens to everyone, but the way you respond to it determines its impact on your brain and body.
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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.
There’s a lot left to understand, ponder, and investigate. And there always will be. For hundreds of thousands of years — nearly all of human history — we had no definitive answers to some of […]