At least 33 cities are sinking by more than 1 cm a year.
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Einstein’s relativity teaches us that time isn’t absolute, but passes relatively for everyone. So how do telescopes see back through time?
When you don’t have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
Metal-like materials have been discovered in a very strange place.
The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.
Everything we observe beyond our Local Group is speeding away from us, omnidirectionally. If the Universe is expanding, where is the center?
A study proposes that an ancient trading network, called the Hopewell tradition, may have been wiped out by what is known as a cosmic airburst.
The Arabic word fatwa can mean “explanation” or “clarification.”
When what we predict and what we measure don’t add up, that’s a sign there’s something new to learn. Could it be a new fundamental force?
It had long seemed impossible that supermassive black holes could grow to such enormous sizes. But the biggest problem is now solved.
The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in 2023. Here’s the story of its 100th anniversary.
An experiment in rats suggests that gene editing may be a treatment for anxiety and alcoholism in adults who were exposed to binge-drinking in their adolescence.
Bolsheviks planned to erect a towering monument to the socialist cause, but their quixotic ideas never got off the ground.
“The Soul of a New Machine” provides a rare level of insight into the minds and decisions of humanity’s greatest thinkers.
A new family of drugs is changing the way scientists are thinking about obesity.
Types of therapy are about as different as the people who use it.
From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?
The information we have in the Universe is finite and limited, but our curiosity and wonder is forever insatiable. And always will be.
Should we be searching for life on other planets, or technology?
Is the Universe finite or infinite? Does it go on forever or loop back on itself? Here’s what would happen if you traveled forever.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome?
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.
Should men be doing kegels?
The highest-energy particles could be a sign of new, unexpected physics. But the simplest, most mundane explanation is particularly iron-ic.
One of the most original and optimistic thinkers in America sketches some big ideas about what’s possible with AI in the next 25 years.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
Crafting an effective learning and development strategy can be challenging. Here are five key considerations.