Automation technologies manufacture goods or provide labor with minimal human intervention. They can trace their origins as far back as the 16th century—and arguably further—but didn’t take off until the […]
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Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.
Quantum physics just keeps getting weirder, even as it gets more fascinating. “Is it a wave or is it a particle?” Never has such a simple question had such a […]
Researchers dramatically improve the accuracy of a number that connects fundamental forces.
You’re gonna die, cloud! All stars, even our Sun, will someday eventually die. After burning on the main sequence for billions of years, the Sun will expand into a red giant, […]
Once a book is published, who gets to interpret it? Us or the author?
Everyone has pondered what they would do with an extra hour a day. Would they get more sleep or spend more time with family? Spend time on a side project […]
It’s hard to stop looking back and forth between these faces and the busts they came from.
For the first time in many years, there’s currently a comet visible to the naked eye in Earth’s night sky: comet NEOWISE. For the first time in many years, there’s currently […]
James Gillray’s ‘plumb-pudding’ caricature is “probably the most famous political cartoon of all time.”
If our nearest star has an Earth-like planet, here’s how we’ll see it. As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization […]
Study confirms the existence of a special kind of groupthink in large groups.
Just point the Nix at your surface of choice and within seconds, this eagle-eyed sensor analyzes the pigment and points you to the closest color matches from all the biggest paint brands.
A new study finds that dogs fed fresh human-grade food don’t need to eat—or do their business—as much.
A new study explores how wearing a face mask affects the error rates of popular facial recognition algorithms.
In Germany and France, having an Anglo-Saxon first name is a good predictor of extreme voting behavior.
Animals are adapting all the time these days to stay out of our way.
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]
Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up.
Was the hamburger menu always so ubiquitous?
We give it the flight plan, and it takes care of the rest. It has to. Here’s why. No matter how advanced our technology becomes, there are certain limits that can […]
From Brahms to Tchaikovsky, here’s a curated list of composers whose music has shaped the classical canon.
Avi Loeb says it’s aliens. Every other astronomer disagrees. Here’s why. In 2017, an astronomical event occurred that was unlike any other: for the first time, we observed an object that […]
How two seemingly distinct exoplanet systems turned out to be related. Practically every star in the Milky Way has a similar origin story. At some point in the past, a molecular […]
Add some color to the internal structures and you’ve got some eye-popping imagery.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
Too many entrepreneurs care more about growing their audience at all costs than improving their ability to serve all sectors of their existing audience.
And a combination of all three might take us farther than ever. If you want to see the farthest objects in the Universe, you have to know not only where to […]
Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?