Within the next billion years, the Magellanic Clouds might merge with our galaxy. But the new stars are already here. Within the Milky Way, there are only a few instances of […]
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Renowned scientists and technologists who’ve passed away in 2018.
From “if-by-whiskey” to the McNamara fallacy, being able to spot logical missteps is an invaluable skill.
Glenn Albrecht has ideas about how to cope with the effects of a changing world: Invent a new language.
It’s one way to interpret recent X-ray data, but it conflicts with much, much better data we already have. Earlier this month, a new study came out claiming something shocking: perhaps […]
If we could see in three dimensions instead of two, we’d never have thought otherwise. Perhaps the most famous sight of a dying star is the Ring Nebula, discovered in […]
The Zen of choreographer Merce Cunningham comes alive in a new documentary about his life.
Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.
A fascinating new book tells the untold stories of two women, Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb, who could have been first. On June 18, 1983, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched with […]
Without this one ingredient, there wouldn’t be enough ‘glue’ to hold the Universe together. Of all the things in the Universe to be thankful for — the stars, planets, atoms, molecules, and […]
The Sun will eventually become a red giant star, swallowing Mercury and Venus in the process. But what will happen to Earth? There are a few existential questions we can ask […]
If they saw us as we were before the recent industrial revolution, would there be any reason to particularly care about us? All across the Universe, trillions of galaxies can be […]
A new study discovered that lack of purpose leads to earlier death.
It might seem puzzling, in a Universe bound by the speed of light, that this could be true. Here’s the science behind it. If you look out into the distant Universe, […]
In 1919, Woodrow Wilson attempted to rally the U.S. behind the League of Nations. His failure suggested the way forward.
If you’re wondering whether the blast wave or the radiation would kill us first, you’re asking the wrong question. As far as raw explosive power goes, no other cataclysm in […]
We put presidents on our money, but isn’t there more to life than politics?
The hot Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, and there’s no other possible answer consistent with what we know today. Conceptually, it might seem like the simplest idea in existence […]
The Avengers movies have done a marvelous job melding science and story.
Patients with lung disease could find relief by breathing in messenger RNA molecules.
As Game of Thrones ends, a revealing resolution to its perplexing geography.
In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser says modern mindfulness is dictated more by market forces than ethics.
The Glen McLaughlin Collection brings together more than 700 historical examples of ‘California as an island’.
Mistakes are part of learning, not a failure of character.
The neuralnanorobotics are coming.
If your goal was to destroy the science of astronomy and astrophysics, this is exactly how you’d do it. One of the perks of being President of the United States of […]
If your Universe contains any matter at all, a constant Hubble parameter is absolutely impossible. Our observable Universe is an enormous place, with some two trillion galaxies strewn across the […]
A plan to forgive almost a trillion dollars in debt would solve the student loan debt crisis, but can it work?
Despite being free to users, Facebook seems to have a monopoly on our speech, our data, and our lives.
Sunken nuclear submarines and covert operations against the Soviet Union eventually led to Titanic’s discovery.