Matter can indeed sprout out of nothingness, causing the universe to expand.
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Physicist Frank Wilczek proposes new methods of searching for extraterrestrial life.
The effects of deforestation extend farther than previously thought.
Unfortunately, it’s getting easier to predict what might happen to cryptocurrencies when the economy takes a nosedive.
Will identifying patient zero curb the spread, or just cause stigma?
It’s not volcanic activity, and it’s definitely not from a fire. Mars, our red planetary neighbor, is a vastly different world from Earth. Mars and Earth, to scale, shows how much […]
It is rare for them to form, nonetheless reach this size.
Now an insult, ‘cretin’ was the medical term for a debilitating disease endemic in the Alps until the early 20th century.
A NASA-sponsored competition asks participants to improve the design of a bucket drum for moon excavation.
It doesn’t matter what’s popular, logical, or intuitive. What matters is what you can observe and measure. Imagine asking the biggest, most fundamental question of all: what is reality? How would […]
A new research letter points to another reason for childhood obesity.
Scientists figured out how a certain treatment for skin cancer gives some patients a visual “superpower.”
Learn where your ancestors are from, the breed of your rescue dog, and if your home is safe with these easy at-home kits.
A new study lays out the case for the damaging effects of stress on orcas living in tanks.
Think there are habitable super-Earths out there? Think again. Here in our Solar System, we have two very distinct types of planets: small, terrestrial, rocky worlds, with thin (or no) atmospheres […]
Solar geoengineering ideas could weaken storms in both hemispheres, scientists find.
It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not an opinion. And it’s not biased like you think it is. Most of us, when we think about what science is, default […]
Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.
All life as we know it relies on carbon and water. But researchers speculate this doesn’t have to be the case.
The CDC estimates that more than 210,000 people in the U.S. have been hospitalized by the flu this season.
Neo’s superhuman powers were only inside of The Matrix. The outside world offered a different reality.
The age of the Universe is only 13.8 billion years, but we know that protons survive much longer. Here’s how. Since the discovery of radioactivity in the 19th century, humanity has […]
Astrophysics has probed a test of a fundamental law, ‘Lorentz invariance,’ well beyond the LHC’s limits. Einstein is still right. The greatest scientific legacy that Albert Einstein left us is this: […]
The smart toilet can analyze urine and stool samples for disease markers and can even recognize an individual user’s “analprint”.
Is it ethical to use a dead man’s sperm to become pregnant?
A new batch of papers reveals some of Mars’ subterranean secrets.
One in five people have ended sex because of bad bedroom talk. Here’s the data and science on how to do it right.
Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals that are produced when a plant is damaged.
The center of our Sun tops out at 15 million K, but nuclear bombs can get nearly 20 times hotter. Here’s how. In terms of raw energy output, nothing on our […]
The story behind the meme is one of those rare cases where everybody wins. The spectacle of a large fish getting fired out of a cannon has taken the internet […]