A wild, compelling idea without a direct, practical test, the Multiverse is highly controversial. But its supporting pillars sure are stable.
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A recent advance in 3D imaging techniques helped spark the biggest ever discovery of North American cave art.
Speeding through the Universe and leaving a wake of new stars, this runaway supermassive black hole is likely the first among thousands.
This is a perversion of justice.
Reduction is an approach that has been successful in science but is not itself synonymous with “science.”
An early feasibility study finds a potential new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.
Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.
The dream of zero resistance is closer than you may think. One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical […]
A fairly old idea, but a really good one, is about to hit the store shelves.
When the mutual relatives of two royal families died, the countries were likelier to go to war.
Experiencing too much pleasure and not enough pain may yield counterintuitive consequences.
Sometimes the value of soft skills feels almost secretive—like some scrap of knowledge handed down through an ancient society of corporate recruiters. Of course, that’s not the case or that’s […]
Binary pulsars are doing what no other measurement has done: measure our galactic acceleration directly. Even though the majority of the matter that makes up our Universe may be completely […]
We spend much of our early years learning arithmetic and algebra. What’s the use?
Hubble’s still going strong after 31+ years. James Webb will never make it that long. Every decision that’s made — in both astronomy and in life — comes with its own set of pros and […]
Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.
And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]
No. But Buddhism and quantum mechanics have much to teach each other.
You don’t have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
There’s no telling whether machine-learned common sense is five years away, or 50.
The cause of the recent uptick in radiation is unknown, but speculation about another catastrophe at Chernobyl is hyperbolic.
Yes, dark energy is real. Yes, distant galaxies recede faster and faster as time goes on. But the expansion rate isn’t accelerating at all.
In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.
Studies show talk therapy works, but experts disagree about how it does so. Finding the answer could help professionals and patients.
A powerful new tool lights up the brains of worms, and may soon help draw maps of other animals brains.
The stars stood no chance against the more-massive black holes.
Scientists at Washington University are patenting a new electrolyzer designed for frigid Martian water.
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.