Often viewed as a theoretical, calculational tool only, the Lamb Shift proved their existence. If you spend enough time listening to theoretical physicists, it starts to sound like there are […]
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Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them “touch” each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?
You’ve heard of Stephen Hawking. Ever heard of Renata Kallosh? Didn’t think so.
Company culture is always evolving — sometimes for the worse.
Enough mass in one location will always create a black hole. But not all masses are possible. If you take enough mass and compress it into a small enough volume […]
If everything eventually dies and decays, is there a way to prolong the inevitable? Our Universe, as it exists today, puts us in an incredibly privileged position. Had we come […]
If you’ve ever struggled with the strong force, this explanation is a life-saver. If you ask someone to think about some physical phenomenon that’s responsible for any sort of force […]
If you think ‘particles are matter’ and ‘antiparticles are antimatter,’ think again. In this Universe, there are certain rules that have never been observed to be broken. Some of these […]
The pulse took just 35 hours to cover the whole world.
65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth. Not only did Jupiter not stop it, but it probably caused the impact itself.
Once only dark energy remains, empty space still won’t be completely empty. Imagine, if you dare, the very end of the Universe. The stars — past, present, and future — have all burned out. […]
Pokémon has people wandering the world to enslave wild and magical creatures so they can fight in painful blood sports. What’s fun about that?
All life forms, anywhere in our Universe, are chemically connected yet completely unique.
Two new studies examine ways we could engineer human wormhole travel.
Russia’s cyberattacks against Ukraine have been prolific and ongoing for several years. The future of war may begin in cyberspace.
Science can teach us so much about our planet, but something more must compel us to take care of it. If you want to understand our planet, the best way to […]
Two types of leaves for two different drastic weather conditions.
Asking science to determine what happened before time began is like asking, “Who were you before you were born?”
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we’ll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
A chemist explains the real reason your family dinner is such a risky ordeal.
The size of rabbits and hares has long been evolutionarily constrained by competitors roughly their size.
There’s a lot to get rid of if we want to get only our Universe out of String Theory. A lot of people, when they learn about String Theory for the […]
We once thought the Moon was completely airless, but it turns out it has an atmosphere, after all. Even wilder: It has a tail of its own.
Most things in the world can be seen in surprisingly different ways.
Shooting star or piece of space dust?
Venus has far more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than Earth, which turned our sister planet into an inferno. But how did it get there?
The concept of ‘relativistic mass’ has been around almost as long as relativity has. But is it valid? No matter who you are, where you are, or how quickly you’re moving, […]
Scientists do not know what is causing the overabundance of the gas.
Three of our dimensions are spatial and one is temporal, but could there be more? From any point in space, you are free to move in any direction you choose. No […]