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It has no moving parts and could allow us to tap into renewable energy year round.
A “bio-battery” made from genetically engineered bacteria could store excess renewable energy and release it as needed.
EV charging stations are the most widespread alternative to gas and diesel pumps. Each alternative has its own hotspots and “deserts.”
2023’s Nobel Prize was awarded for studying physics on tiny, attosecond-level timescales. Too bad that particle physics happens even faster.
Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years.
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?
Headlines have blared that quasar ticking confirms that time passed more slowly in the early Universe. That’s not how any of this works.
When we prepare for our plans to go wrong, we build the foundations for lasting profit.
Humanity is in trouble. Here’s how aliens could help.
“Stargate” could be used to train the world’s most powerful AIs.
This supremely simple hack can help you establish good habits, break bad ones, and guard against failure.
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
The matter that creates black holes won’t be what comes out when they evaporate. Will the black hole information paradox ever be solved?
Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with light as both a wave and a particle.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer’s suggestive simulation.
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
An in-depth interview with astronomer Kelsey Johnson, whose new book, Into the Unknown, explores what remains unknown about the Universe.
To kickstart innovation follow the insider startup knowledge about charisma, “well-rounded square pegs,” and rock-solid teams.
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn’t made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why “dark matter” is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team’s loss.
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There are two types of missing, or “dark” matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and non-baryonic. Have we finally found the normal stuff?
Billions of years ago, the ever-increasing entropy must’ve been much lower: the past hypothesis. Here’s how cosmic inflation solves it.
Deliveries of the $250k Lightyear 0 will start in November 2022.
Our model of the Universe, dominated by dark matter and dark energy, explains almost everything we see. Almost. Here’s what remains.