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The iconic physicist warns that we’d better find another planet in the next 100 years, or humanity is screwed.   

Nothing can escape from a black hole… but could another black hole pull something out? Once you fall into the event horizon of a black hole, you can never escape. […]

Want humans to go to the Moon or Mars? Then let’s stop wasting time and resources and go do it! “We had this whole big beautiful place for discovery, and all […]

Sam Harris talks with David Deutsch about how modern people are already living like astronauts.

It does undergo nuclear fusion, but there are more reactions and more energy released from reactions other than H → He. “The sun is a miasmaOf incandescent plasmaThe sun’s not simply […]

Even things like appetite and tiredness move through social networks, researchers found.   

Video gaming skills could be valuable in a rapidly growing industry with a deficit of qualified people, finds new study.

In line with his own ingrained assumptions, the standard ones of Victorian England, Darwin maintained that female inferiority is an inescapable consequence of nature.

The FDA approves the first “living drug” cell therapy for childhood leukemia.

An interactive periodic table with pictures makes it easy to see how each element is used.

It’s a lot more than just being unable to measure two things simultaneously. “In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist […]

Was it really a low-entropy state? And what does that mean for the second law of thermodynamics? “Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize […]

They’re the fastest rotators of all. So how distorted are they? There are very few objects in the Universe that stand still; almost everything we know of rotates in some way. […]

If you know when, where and how to look, the show will still be spectacular. “My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little […]

Now we know, on every scale. “There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without […]

There was a silver lining for patients who have heart disease or diabetes. 

Scientists feel under attack. This is how they’re fighting back.

Is creativity a wild and free state of mind, or is it actually a pattern that others just can’t recognize?

From a speculative story to solid science! “The new ALMA images show the disk in unprecedented detail, revealing a series of concentric dusty bright rings and dark gaps, including intriguing features […]

I mean, who wants to step into a minefield and start poking around?   

The oddest star known in the galaxy is dimming again, and this time it might give up some of its secrets! “As far as I can tell, every telescope that can […]

This could revolutionize organ transplants, grafts, prostheses, and implants.

Every year, companies try to do things better, to find the most effective way to complete some task or to improve overall productivity. Employee learning programs play a massive part […]

If atmospheric hazes can cool the distant ice dwarf by an extra 30 degrees Celsius, maybe we can geoengineer a solution to our warming problem? When NASA’s New Horizons flew by […]

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Geneticist Jennifer Doudna on the profound implications of her CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology for the future of humanity. 

There have been a lot of public advocates from the “no dark matter” camp, getting lots of popular attention. But the Universe still needs dark matter. Here’s why. If you took […]

If you heard about time crystals, be aware that they do exist. But learn what they mean. “Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time […]

The differences between what you are and what you could be are stunning. The human body consists of somewhere around 1028particles, all bound together. The typical human has a mass […]

While it’s reasonable to trust that science will eventually answer our unsolved questions, assuming that it has all of the answers right now is not.

This breakthrough could improve virtual and augmented reality, surveillance, and reconnaissance.