Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.
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Oxygen isn’t strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.
Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?
Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.
Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up.
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.
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
In Sun-like stars, hydrogen gets fused into helium. In the Big Bang, hydrogen fusion also makes helium. But they aren’t close to the same.
As technology advances, the use of laser weapons in space becomes more likely.
Einstein’s “happiest thought” led to General Relativity’s formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?
The very word “quantum” makes people’s imaginations run wild. But chances are you’ve fallen for at least one of these myths.
The big-picture physics is simple – let gravity do its job.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
What do ghosts and anomalous galaxy rotation rates have in common? Some sci-fi enthusiasts believe the answer involves “parallel universes.”
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Quantum superposition challenges our notions of what is real.
We’ve heard this argument before.
The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
The LHC has a long, productive life ahead of it. An upgraded version, called the “High Luminosity LHC,” will be available in 2028.
There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the Universe’s expansion. They disagree. “Early dark energy” might save us.
We frequently say it’s 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that’s not all that’s in the Universe.
What the breakthrough methods of laboratory research can teach the business world about brainstorming.