There are three answers depending on what you consider the “edge,” but only two of them are known. If you were to go as far out into space as you can […]
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100+ years ago, General Relativity came along, and Einstein gave the Universe a cosmological constant. Here’s why that was a mistake. Back in the 17th century, Isaac Newton put forth the […]
After 13.8 billion years, there’s still a whole lot that’s changing as time goes on. With each new year that comes upon us, there are a slew of new events awaiting […]
Many people, including some scientists, fear that the coming 5G WiFi revolution will harm humans. Here’s why that’s unfounded. Over the coming few years, a new set of infrastructure will […]
Can changing who delivers your electricity to you solve a slew of problems?
Americans lose an estimated 321 million work days every year due to anxiety and depression.
Contact-tracing apps can be a useful tool for public health, but they have considerable false positive and false negative rates.
By not taking emergency action to combat climate change, we’re gambling dangerously with the future.
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 […]
Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals that are produced when a plant is damaged.
We’ve argued over ideology for far too long. It’s time to pick a better route to prosperity. In every civilized society around the world, there’s a trade-off that must be […]
Find out the truth for yourself. If this past year has shown us anything, it’s how thoroughly we rely on high-quality expertise. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, it […]
An astrophysicist proposes new designs for stellar engines that can move a solar system.
In 774/775, tree rings show a spike in carbon-14 unlike anything else. At last, scientists think they know why. Every once in a while, science gives us a mystery that comes […]
Observing the great gas giant helps me to keep important things in perspective.
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After the unrelenting negativity of 2020, we may need a refresher on the benefits of a positive affect.
All scientific theories, at some level, are wrong. That’s why consensus is so vital. There are two important and common words that, when used scientifically, have a very different meaning than […]
The TRUTHS mission aims to collect extremely precise data on how much radiation Earth absorbs and reflects.
Researchers find what causes the glow coming from the densest objects in our universe.
A biologist-reporter investigates his fungal namesake.
Even extremely simple configurations in General Relativity cannot be solved exactly. Here’s the science of why. It’s difficult to appreciate how revolutionary of a transformation it is to consider the Universe […]
Zeno’s paradox stumped philosophers, mathematicians, and intellectuals for millennia. It took physics to finally solve it. The fastest human in the world, according to the Ancient Greek legend, was the heroine […]
Apps that warn about close contact with COVID-19 cases can help relax social distancing rules.
It’s true that we have a thermodynamic arrow of time, and entropy always increases. But that can’t explain what we perceive. One of the enormous conceptual ideas that came along […]
Leap years will only get us through the next few thousand years before we have to fix it. With every year that passes, we assume that two separate things will both […]
Can passenger airships make a triumphantly ‘green’ comeback?
The White House is reportedly considering an executive order that would open up public access to scientific research.
Could this finally be the clue we’ve hoped for in uncovering the truth about dark matter? In the physical sciences, theory and observation are supposed to work hand-in-hand. Theorists work out […]
It’s both accurate and slightly misleading to call the keto diet a “fad diet”. On the one hand, the keto diet has in recent years become a fad, taking over a […]
We give it the flight plan, and it takes care of the rest. It has to. Here’s why. No matter how advanced our technology becomes, there are certain limits that can […]