The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make “beams” out of them?
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Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.
Germany finds itself once again allowing a murderous dictator to run rampant in Europe, though this time it is due to incompetence and technophobia rather than malice.
There are 40 billion billion black holes in the universe. Here’s how our Solar System stacks up against ten of them.
By looking down, scientists are looking back in time.
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
Ever since the start of the hot Big Bang, time ticks forward as the Universe expands. But could time ever run backward, instead?
Oxygen isn’t strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.
Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.
Analog could serve as “always-on” computing, while digital is turned on only when necessary.
Do the laws of physics place a hard limit on how far technology can advance, or can we re-write those laws?
There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
We don’t yet know if these strange “obelisks” are helpful or harmful.
Drop sodium in water, and a violent, even explosive reaction will occur. But quantum physics is needed to explain why.
If you want to understand the Universe, cosmologically, you just can’t do it without the Friedmann equation. With it, the cosmos is yours.
Three fundamental forces matter inside an atom, but gravity is mind-bogglingly weak on those scales. Could extra dimensions explain why?
The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, going back to the hot Big Bang. But was that truly the beginning, and is that truly its age?
We can’t go back to the Big Bang, nor ahead to the heat death of the Universe. Nevertheless, here are today’s natural temperature extremes.
The pandemic and the Great Resignation fed into a perfect storm of inflation — and some restaurateurs cleaned up.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
U.S. nuclear power plants are built to survive external attacks. Even missiles or a commercial aircraft strike would not cause a meltdown or radiation leak.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
Einstein’s “happiest thought” led to General Relativity’s formulation. Would a different profound insight have led us forever astray?
As technology advances, the use of laser weapons in space becomes more likely.
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.