Until recently, we were only able to view Venus’s surface with radar or by landing on the planet. It was believed that Venus’s surface was entirely obscured by clouds; NASA’s Parker Solar Probe proved otherwise.
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The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]
The most common element in the Universe, vital for forming new stars, is hydrogen. But there’s a finite amount of it; what if we run out?
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it’s magical.
For the first time, light that comes from behind a black hole has been spotted.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
New technology is helping physicists move forward in the search for the Theory of Everything.
I hate grading. I love teaching, though, and giving students feedback is teaching.
Cities overstimulate our senses and are full of people we don’t know. Maybe humans were meant for this.
The “overview effect,” experienced by astronauts when they view the Earth from outer space, irrevocably changes your perspective as a human.
In the perilous mountains of Tibet, archaeologists unearthed ancient hand and footprints that seem to be the creative work of children.
It took a series of ingenious experiments in the 20th century to uncover some of our biggest cognitive biases.
Technologically, the answer is definitely no. But that doesn’t mean CGI is always used to good effect.
Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
The modern antiracist movement is harming the very people it claims to help, according to the linguist John McWhorter.
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
It’s the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
It is time to give the Russian cosmologist the credit he deserves.
With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]
Roughly the size of a thumbnail, this newly discovered toadlet has some anatomical surprises.
The so-called “court painter of Silicon Valley” was shaped by her youth in communist Poland but looks forward to a future ruled by celebrity robots.
Scientists believe they have the answer, but philosophers prove them wrong.
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From physics and alchemy to theology and eschatology, Isaac Newton’s research was rooted in a personal pursuit of the Divine.
On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.
If you think you know what sex, gender, and “the right thing to do” for trans youth and adults are, be sure it agrees with actual science.