The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
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Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn’t even the worst-case scenario.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
“The digital HQ – the digital infrastructure that supports productivity and collaboration – actually became more important than the physical HQ.”
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.
As particles travel through the Universe, there’s a speed limit to how fast they’re allowed to go. No, not the speed of light: below it.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Cross-disciplinary cooperation is needed to save civilization.
Already 14 billion miles from the Sun, Voyager 1 is speeding away at 38,000 mph.
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?
If you want to find life in the Universe, this is how you do it. When it comes to uncovering the ultimate truths about reality, we can only reap what we […]
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.
The more you like, follow and share, the faster you find yourself moving in that political direction.
Science was never the same after meeting ‘the particle who lived.’ Back in the early 1930s, there were only a few known fundamental particles that made up the Universe. If you […]
Americans lose an estimated 321 million work days every year due to anxiety and depression.
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 […]