It occurred naturally, and scientists know this for certain. Starting in late 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, began infecting human beings for the very first time. Discovered in samples […]
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Take a look at the Times Square Totem, the Trafalgar Square Pyramid, and other landmarks that were never built.
An evolutionary biologist explains why you probably won’t grow a tail.
A study of europium crystals shows the planet was mostly flat during its middle ages.
The mummy was first thought to be a male priest. But a recent radiological analysis revealed a surprising anomaly.
Snakes and mammals share common genetic building blocks necessary for producing venom.
Dunbar’s number is a popular estimate for the maximum size of social groups. But new research suggests that it’s a fictitious number based on flimsy data and bad theory.
Is it groupthink? Or is there a deeper reason? In the early half of the 20th century, even after the discovery of the expanding Universe, physicists considered a wide variety of […]
Not only does this give us a look at the scaffolding of the universe, we found some new galaxies too!
Our Sun will continue to grow, becoming a red giant and then a planetary nebula. Here’s how large it will get.
And what might we learn as we collect new, never-before-seen data? If you took one of history’s top scientists from 100 years ago and dropped them into today’s world, what […]
DNA molecules are highly programmable.
Evidence shows that information is transmitted via “complex contagion.”
Anxiety can be good or bad. It turns out that it’s really up to you.
GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.
Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky. A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual.
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 […]
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
The most massive nearby stars could be the seeds our supermassive black holes need. The problem with the Universe, as we see it today, is that we only get a snapshot […]
If it weren’t for a subatomic quantum rule, our Universe would be vastly different. In many ways, our views of the distant Universe are the closest things we’ll ever get […]
Even after our merger with Andromeda, we might retain our spiral shape for trillions of years. You probably don’t think about it very often, but the Milky Way galaxy won’t remain […]
Is the multiverse real? It’s one of the hottest questions in all of theoretical physics. We invited two astrophysicists to join the debate.
The natural wonders of Mauritius include the spectacular sight of an underwater waterfall. Here’s the science of how it works.
Are there innate differences between female and male brains?
Our social instincts can lead us to adopt models of desire that might not serve our interests.
There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.
Most potentially hazardous asteroids remain unidentified. NEO surveyor could change that, but only if it’s funded, and soon.
We have two ways of measuring the expansion rate. Here’s the harder one. If you want to understand where our Universe came from and where it’s going, you need to measure […]