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Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.
The Universe’s idea of a ‘typical star’ has changed dramatically over time. When you look out at the Universe today, you’re not seeing it exactly as it is at one particular […]
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we’ve ever seen our home galaxy.
The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is the event of a lifetime.
More than any other of Einstein’s equations, E = mc² is the most recognizable to people. But what does it all mean?
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A Harvard professor’s study discovers the worst year to be alive.
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Move over, IC 1101. You may be impressively large, but you never stood a chance against the largest known galaxy: Alcyoneus.
The “Euro Night Sprinter” map is utopian, but Europe’s rail future could look a lot like it.
Everybody wins, everybody loses, or something in between.
The helicopter’s sixth mission almost went down in disaster.
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
And, if we have one, how close are we to it? No matter which direction we look in, or how far away our telescopes and instruments are capable of seeing, the […]
America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.
Infrared, visible, and ultraviolet combine to show us Jupiter’s features as never before. The largest planet in our Solar System, Jupiter, is our own ‘failed star.’ The best evidence-based classification scheme […]
Just say no to artist’s illustrations. This is what the Universe actually looks like. The Universe we observe often surpasses our greatest imaginings. This 20-year time-lapse of stars near the center […]
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.
The Virtual Metaverse will be for gaming and other short duration uses, while the Augmented Metaverse will revolutionize society.
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?
How would the ability to genetically customize children change society? Sci-fi author Eugene Clark explores the future on our horizon in Volume I of the “Genetic Pressure” series.
Magnetic monopoles began as a mere theoretical curiosity. They might hold the key to understanding so much more.
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.
When stars form, they emit energetic radiation that boils gas away. But it can’t stop gravitational collapse from making even newer stars.
With a telescope at just the right distance from the Sun, we could use its gravity to enhance and magnify a potentially inhabited planet.
A thought experiment from 1867 leads scientists to design a groundbreaking information engine.
The Metaverse could be the most dangerous tool of persuasion humanity has ever created.