The massive black holes that formed LIGO’s first event were a surprise, and then a mystery. Here’s the long-awaited solution! “Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a […]
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France is building a solar energy system on top of its roadways.
Solar flares may have created the conditions that led to life on earth.
From obesity and heart attacks to mental disorders and compromised immune systems, a lack of sleep is deadly.
200 meteors per hour is only three per minute, and with a more-than-half full moon out, you might want to stay inside. “My dad took me out to see a meteor […]
The U.S. wind industry saw huge growth in 2015. The American Wind Energy Association announced this week that the industry installed more wind power than any other electric source.
The detection of a second binary black hole merger officially begins the robust era of a new kind of astronomy. “It turned out that nature was very kind, and there […]
China, India, Brazil, and Indonesia are the biggest carbon emitters. They also have the highest rates of premature deaths from air pollution.
Email takes up a lot of our time and often results in little real work getting done at the end of the work day. Many enterprises are finding the less it’s used, the less time gets wasted. Productivity goes up and stress goes down.
Why you might want to find ways to get more greenery onto your block.
Gamma rays from black holes? It’s an incredible idea… and it’s probably wrong. “That’s the next step: to simultaneously see [gravitational waves] with three, four or five interferometers, localize it quickly, […]
Positive thinking all by itself is more destructive than helpful, but when combined with realism and strategy and planning, can be turned to good use.
If we’re going to send a probe to another star at 20% the speed of light, what hope do we have of slowing it down? “Yes, now there is this technological […]
Elon Musk is confident that the electric car’s future is solar-powered.
Some fear we are meddling with forces too powerful for human control.
Science’s signature moves share something with good poetry. Good metaphor-making can make geniuses of both kinds. But bad metaphors can mislead whole fields.
If black holes suck everything in and nothing can get out, what does that mean for dark matter? “A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another […]
It depends where you look. The answer is relatively awesome! “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” –Mario Andretti One of Einstein’s most famous fundamental laws is that […]
With $100 million invested towards it and an incredible concept behind it, could this be the start of interstellar travel? “Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It’s […]
13.8 billion years is a great number. But how sure are we of this, and how did we get there? “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We […]
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Can the art of communal bathing teach us to be more social animals?
Healthy sounding foods aren’t always healthy. A 2014 study titled Truth, Lies, and Packaging: How Food Marketing Creates a False Sense of Health examined the difference between packaging claims of […]
Our reliance on GPS is not only hurting our learning and memory systems, it’s changing our ethics.
“Where did it come from” is pretty high up there! “Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in […]
If they change and distort spacetime as the ripples pass through, could what was once inside actually get out? “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn […]
No. Not even if you violate the laws of physics in two fundamental ways. John Oliver: So, roughly speaking, what are the chances that the world is going to be […]
The statistics on commuting and driving show that women spend more overall time in the car than men for a few different reasons.
A live blog event from Nobel Prizewinner Art McDonald. “It’s ironic: in order to observe the Sun, you need to go kilometers underground.” –Art McDonald In the 1960s, a huge […]
Move over, cigarettes: ramen is the new king of prison currency. A new study for the American Sociological Association found that inmates are using the cheap food as currency.