Its scarcity could impact scientific research as well as the high-tech industry.
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Despite acceptance by many insurance companies, a number of studies don’t confirm its effectiveness.
No matter what Martin Rees or anyone else says, physics dictates that the world is safe. The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. An aerial view of […]
The densest objects in the Universe are also the most difficult to destroy. But eventually, destruction always prevails. There are quite a few ways to make the black holes we […]
A new study outlines why the tobacco and coal industries warrant “corporate death sentences.”
How can we use the resources that are already on the Moon to make human exploration of the satellite as economical as possible?
If you look everywhere between the numbers 1 and 2, you’ll never find 3. Let’s say you have an idea about how our physical reality might be different from how we […]
A comprehensive energy efficiency infographic that lays out the ways you can make a home energy efficient, from smart window treatments and roofing to walls and doors.
It’s made up of scores of telescopes at many different sites across the world. But it acts like one giant telescope. Here’s how. If you want to observe the Universe more […]
New research based on observational data from the Spitzer telescope provides clues as to how the universe first emerged from its dark age.
In 2017, we saw gravitational waves a neutron star merger for the first and only time. And it keeps getting more interesting. On August 17, 2017, a cosmic signal arrived […]
The week-long global protest, which is calling for an end to the age of fossil fuels, is taking place in more than 160 countries today.
What will it take to conquer our immemorial space dream?
For more than 10 billion years, the star-formation rate across the Universe has been plummeting. Here’s the story. Take a look at a wide variety of galaxies in the Universe, and […]
The Bill Gates-backed venture promises to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at a rate of under $100 per tonne.
Does wishing someone well actually affect their health?
It could put the American fossil fuel industry on a clear path to extinction.
Faraday’s law of induction was set forth in 1834, and was the experiment that led Einstein to discover relativity. When we think about Einstein and the theory of relativity, all […]
Talking about climate change doesn’t have to be an argument over Thanksgiving dinner. Some people, though maybe not all, can be persuaded.
Future or extraterrestrial civilizations could create megastructures the size of a solar system.
They make up 95% of our Universe today, but they weren’t always so important. One of the most puzzling mysteries about the Universe is simply, “where is everything?” All that […]
Without this one ingredient, there wouldn’t be enough ‘glue’ to hold the Universe together. Of all the things in the Universe to be thankful for — the stars, planets, atoms, molecules, and […]
Climate change is a dire threat, perhaps it is time to put the people who created and denied the problem on trial?
Synthetic biology is changing the way the planet works.
It may create the conditions for further inequality.
A new study compared cognitive boosts from running versus relaxing.
An Oxford physicist tries to cast doubt on dark energy, but the data says otherwise. It was a mere 20 years ago that our picture of the Universe got a […]