Search Results

The Planetary Habitability Laboratory has made up some periodic tables of all of the confirmed and suspected exoplanets so far, plus planetary bodies in our own solar system.

Instead of nearly-circular ellipses, comets are extraordinarily elongated, or even on an exit path. Why so different? When you look at how the planets orbit in our Solar System, the […]

How do you go from background extra to leading man? Listen to acting legend Bryan Cranston’s pragmatic advice.

It will be the most extreme test of Einstein’s General Relativity ever. And we already have the data. With every year that goes by, the total amount of knowledge that humanity […]

What, exactly, do they do with your DNA?

Neural network learns speech patterns that predict depression in clinical interviews.

There’s something very special inside a proton and neutron that holds the key. There are few things in the Universe that are as easy to form, in theory, as black holes […]

Brett M. Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, one of three women who’s accused him of sexual assault, are due to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

Perhaps energy isn’t conserved at all in an expanding Universe. If you have a Universe full of stuff — whether that’s atoms, dark matter, radiation, neutrinos, or anything else — it’s virtually impossible to […]

The continuing cyber threats to American democracy expose the serious vulnerabilities of its Internet and call for dramatic changes.

Or maybe it’s already begun.

Meteorites could be sowing life throughout the galaxy.

From Memojis to revamped and improved AR, here’s the most interesting and useful new features from Apple.

Scientists develop the first robots capable of merging into a single-minded unit.

50 years ago the city of Chicago erupted in a legendary police riot.

Proposers’ strategies must be successful in one of three different environments.

Dark matter feels fake. MOND sounds plausible. What should you conclude? Imagine I told you that everything you ever saw, touched, or experienced — in this world and in the Universe beyond — was […]

Scientists are investigating whether it’s possible to give modern elephants an ancient boost by reviving woolly mammoth DNA—all to curb climate change.

The discovery of the first-ever asteroid to arrive from interstellar space is full of lessons for us all. On October 19th, astronomers discovered an objectunlike any other we’d seen before: a […]

It’s either a cosmic mystery or a terribly mundane mistake. The Universe is expanding, and every scientist in the field agrees with that. The observations overwhelmingly support that straightforward conclusion, and […]

The findings could help medical professionals better determine the official time of brain death, and might have implications on the protocols for organ donation.

Cybersecurity costs billions of dollars each year. Building on a blockchain could solve many of our security problems.

In collaboration with the Clinton Global Initiative University

Before there were gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with the neutrino. Sometimes, the best-designed experiments fail. The effect you’re looking for might not even occur, meaning that a […]

Now is a good time to brush up on who’s on the ballot.

Sending a tiny spaceship to the nearest habitable planet at 20% of the speed of light? No problem, says theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.

The James Webb Space Telescope could mean finding a human-sustaining planet in another galaxy.

The stats on teens transitioning out of foster care aren’t good. Can we empower these young people to build futures to look forward to?

They seem almost indistinguishable in some regards, but only one of them represents our physical Universe. When it comes to describing the physical world, we can do it anecdotally, as […]

As individuals, we scientists are all flawed. But the enterprise of science rises above our individual shortcomings. The enterprise of science is perhaps the greatest achievement in all of human […]