Speeding through the Universe and leaving a wake of new stars, this runaway supermassive black hole is likely the first among thousands.
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And either way, is energy or information conserved? When two things in the Universe that “always” occur meet one another, how do you know which one will win? Gravitational waves, […]
Planets can create nuclear power on their own, naturally, without any intelligence or technology. Earth already did: 1.7 billion years ago.
Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.
Please stop calling our Sun an “average star.” It is philosophically dubious and astronomically incorrect.
Lawmen and outlaws were often the same people.
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
Yoga is more than just standing on your head. It’s about uniting with the divine.
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
Out of sight, but not out of mind.
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
A two-dimensional material made entirely of carbon called graphene won the Nobel Prize in 2010. Graphyne might be even better.
Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
AI has become a black box in more ways than one.
Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as “frisson.” What is it, and why does it happen?
We know more about the universe than what is beneath our feet. But Earth’s mantle holds subtle clues about our planet’s past.
Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?
Known as primordial black holes, they could thoroughly change our Universe’s history. But the evidence is strongly against them.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
Hospice nurse Julie McFadden shares three examples where people hold off death, just for a bit.
Even addition has to play by different rules for black holes. How do you add 28 and 47 together? This simple math question helps us highlight the many different ways that […]
Each year, over half a million migrants cross the deadly jungle separating Colombia from Panama in search of a better life in the United States.
More than 90% of human faces are home to mites that live in our skin pores. These friendly guests might be merging with us.
The biology behind your office’s air conditioning war.
Just as storylines make sense only when you have the context of the beginning and the end, listeners need to understand the impetus for why the album was even made.
Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?
Air conditioning may keep a room cool, but using it is heating up the planet. It is time for something new — or old.
Americans on average consumed about 58 pounds of beef and veal in 2019 – compared with a global average of 14 pounds.
Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]