Even before we have the James Webb Space Telescope, a controversy over when the first stars formed is growing. As far back as our most powerful telescopes have ever looked, we’ve […]
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UMBC’s upset over top-ranked Virginia last week was a perfect example of group flow.
A cosmic controversy is back, and at least one camp — perhaps both — is making an unidentified error. Ever since Hubble first discovered the relationship between a galaxy’s distance and its motion away […]
An Ivy League education without the Ivy League price tag.
Dark matter, dark energy, and why there’s more matter than antimatter? There’s an experiment to explore if neutrinos could solve all three. When you take a look at the Universe in […]
Almost two-thirds of doctors in the U.S. say they’re burned out, depressed, or both. What do we do when the very people charged with safeguarding our health against the effects of burnout are themselves suffering from burnout?
A classic essay defines different ways to disagree, from the worst to the best, with lessons that ring true in our divisive times.
The truth might not be ‘out there’ at all. There may never have been another intelligent, technologically advanced alien species in the entire history of the Universe. When you take into […]
Could famous sinkings and disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle have been prevented by advanced contemporary technology?
There’s a big reason no one, not even Stephen Hawking, could fill Carl Sagan’s shoes. Everyone has a unique story to tell. For scientists, that story is one that usually only […]
After decades of research and analysis of geoscience data, the seventh largest geological continent officially exists.
We’ve come so far since 2015; what do we know about dark matter now that we didn’t know then? Back in 2015, the dark matter situation was pretty straightforward: the large-scale […]
If mating preferences are biologically predetermined, individual sexism shouldn’t have an impact. But it does.
If you can’t explain the astrophysical signal that you see and cry ‘dark matter,’ chances are you’re not thinking hard enough. Despite our knowledge of the laws of physics, and the […]
Now, you can add chanting to your brain training regimen.
50 years after his assassination, a look back at five ways Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. changed the U.S.
“Scientists should think like poets,” says E.O. Wilson, because new metaphors mobilize new thinking.
Is consciousness everywhere? Is it a basic feature of the Universe, at the very heart of the tiniest subatomic particles? Such an idea – panpsychism as it is known – […]
Scientists are supposed to reach their conclusions after doing research and weighing the evidence but, in economics, conclusions can come first, with economists supporting a thesis that fits their moral worldview.
Why you can’t extrapolate back to a singularity. “Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a […]
Experts discuss the security challenges facing the world in 2018 at a panel of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Meteorites could be sowing life throughout the galaxy.
A physicist demonstrates how life may be a predictable product of thermodynamics.
“At times, it seems as if we are condemned to try to understand our own time with conceptual frameworks more than half a century old.” Historian Niall Ferguson says it’s time for an update.
The paradox is one that Hawking himself claimed to have a solution to many times, but none of the proposals have held up to scrutiny. The paradox is still unresolved. […]
Technical knowledge continues to be privileged over social knowledge.
Humanity has mapped the Milky Way better than ever with ESA’s Gaia. But 1.7 billion stars later, there are still no Dyson spheres. Perhaps the greatest ‘holy grail’ in all of […]
Distances in the expanding Universe don’t work like you’d expect. Unless, that is, you learn to think like a cosmologist. There are a few fundamental facts about the Universe — its origin, […]
A new study from the University of Chicago shows that monkey brains can control and adapt to robotic limbs.
One of cosmic inflation’s cofounders came out against it, calling it not even science. But it is… and so much more. “There’s no obvious reason to assume that the very same […]