There really is a cosmic conundrum about how fast the Universe is expanding. Changing its age won’t help. One of the most surprising and interesting discoveries of the 21st century is […]
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MIT and Google researchers use deep learning to decipher ancient languages.
The process of digging into hard questions makes the moment of discovery all the more satisfying.
Even if you remove everything you can from the Universe, some energy will still remain. Here’s what that means. Imagine, if you can, what it would mean to have a Universe […]
We might live in a quantum Universe, but we’ll violate the principle of relativity if space is discrete. If you try and divide matter into smaller and smaller chunks, you’ll […]
Study shows minerals sequester carbon for thousands of years, which may explain oxygen’s abundance in the atmosphere.
Could this be the beginning of the end of insulin injections?
If economic growth knowingly increases mass-scale suffering, can we stop chasing it?
And does it require the idea of ‘negative gravity’ in order to work? The biggest question that we’re even capable of asking, with our present knowledge and understanding of the Universe, […]
The Amazon Rainforest is often called “The Planet’s Lungs.”
Doctors may be able to painlessly reshape cartilage with the technique.
Is former Vice President Joe Biden’s “return to normalcy” approach too moderate for Democratic voters?
Junk food causes weight gain, but it’s not just about the calories.
Is information the fifth form of matter?
The 17-year-old climate activist gets a lot of criticism online. Which of those critiques hold water?
A new paradigm for machine vision has just been demonstrated.
They actually have a quasicrystal-like structure
Although they may be healthier in many ways, more ethical, and better for the environment, restrictive diets don’t come without their challenges.
We catalogue seven more board games to teach children science, problem-solving, and even foster their creativity.
The whole should equal the sum of its parts, but doesn’t. Here’s why. The whole is equal to the sum of its constituent parts. That’s how everything works, from galaxies to […]
Do we suffer from birth anxiety like we suffer from death anxiety?
The future of food sounds bleak, but it doesn’t need to be this way.
While the web of dark matter (purple) might seem to determine cosmic structure formation on its own, the feedback from normal matter (red) can severely impact galactic scales. Both dark […]
Some claim that inflation isn’t science, but it sure has made some incredibly successful scientific predictions. So, you want to know how the Universe began? You’re not alone. Every other […]
Antibiotic resistance poses one of the biggest threats to global public health.
When you’re trying to peel back the veil obscuring the fundamental nature of matter, you have to look absolutely everywhere. Sometimes, the solution to a puzzle you’ve been stymied by […]
Mycologist Paul Stamets believes they should be.
Electrons show chemists how to see more with less.
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 […]
Unbelievably enough, it all comes back to Pythagoras. One of the first theorems anyone learns in mathematics is the Pythagorean Theorem: if you have a right triangle, then the square […]