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Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]
If you think it’s just three quarks held together by gluons, you’ll want to read this. At a fundamental level, the Universe is composed of indivisible particles. From macroscopic scales down […]
Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb’s first deep-field image taught us lessons we’ve never realized before.
The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you’re doing and watch the original.
13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here’s why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn’t how it will end.
This storm rained electrons, shifted energy from the sun’s rays to the magnetosphere, and went unnoticed for a long time.
Start by reading the title, looking at the labels and checking the caption. If these are not available – be very wary.
New studies find the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the most “pristine” ever discovered.
To date, only one research vessel has ever encountered a milky sea.
Since 2015, the Women in the Workplace report has evaluated the successes of women in corporate America alongside the challenges they face. Sponsored by McKinsey & Co. and Lean In, […]
How our brains interpret computer code could impact how we teach it.
Neuroplasticity is a major driver of learning and memory in humans.
A unique exoplanet without clouds or haze was found by astrophysicists from Harvard and Smithsonian.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
Masks are great, but what happens when we try to throw out a billion masks at once?
If our goal is to effect the greatest possible progress, what would it look like to approach this holistically? What might need to dispositionaly in how we approach solving our most important problems—at an individual level, a community level, or at a civilizational or global one? We asked our experts to think big picture about how what new thinking would be required to create a larger pro-progress framework.
The brightest object in the night sky, our Moon is an unmistakable sight. The brightest object in the night sky, our Moon is an unmistakable sight. The Moon, in a […]
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Gravitation, all on its own, can reveal what’s present in the cosmos like nothing else.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.
An artificial island in the North Sea is the biggest building project ever in Danish history – and could pave the way for many more.
Using a laboratory model, scientists get a nice Jovian surprise.
There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.
Halley’s comet only visits every ~76 years, but its meteors arrive twice each year. The most famous comet of all — Halley’s comet — returns to our inner Solar System every ~76 years. Halley’s comet […]
Climate change and artificial intelligence pose substantial — and possibly existential — problems for humanity to solve. Can we?