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This storm rained electrons, shifted energy from the sun’s rays to the magnetosphere, and went unnoticed for a long time.

Immune booster or pure torture?

How the simple act of watching twilight can radically transform our perception of the world and our role within it.

If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.

The Universe gravitates so that normal matter and General Relativity alone can’t explain it. Here’s why dark matter beats modified gravity.

One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.

Who needs steroids when you have the placebo effect?

Asteroid collisions aren’t always bad.

Almost 10% of all new jobs created between 2020 and 2030 will unfortunately be some of the lowest paid.

The body uses its own electricity to repair wounds. Faster healing may be possible with additional electrical stimulation.

NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.

Some scientists think we should allow our bodies to more harmlessly live with pathogens until they’re cleared from our systems.

You can buy over 400,000 products tagged “witch” on Etsy, from candles to spell bottles to pentagram necklaces.

For some reason, the charges on the electron and proton are equal and opposite, and their numbers are equal, too. But why?

Dr. Katie Mack explains what dark energy is and two ways it could one day destroy the universe.

Being mortal makes life so much sweeter.

As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes once and only once, or chaos would ensue. How do they do it? Key controls happen well before replication even starts.

After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way’s central black hole looks like.

Scientists have found three new examples of a very exotic form of matter made of quarks. They can yield insights into the early Universe.

Many galaxies really are ultra-distant, but some are just intrinsically red or dusty. Only with spectroscopy can JWST tell which is which.

Godfrey Hounsfield’s early life did not suggest that he would accomplish much at all.

Why are the rest masses of fundamental particles related like this? When it comes to the nature of matter in the Universe, the Standard Model describes the known elementary particles perfectly […]

There’s the textbook answer, then there’s the real answer.

We’re used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?

There’s no escaping the death of loved ones. But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless in the wake of loss.

We can describe what we see happening, but we don’t understand why. Despite our vast cosmic knowledge, enormous unknowns remain. The quantum fluctuations inherent to space, stretched across the Universe […]

From health to leadership abilities, a good sense of humor can help improve many aspects of life.

Even before the Big Bang, energetic radiation was always present. When it comes to the physical Universe, the notion of “nothing” may truly be possible only in theory, not in […]

After 100 million nights of people asking, “What are those twinkly lights?” it is pretty remarkable that we happen to live in one of the first generations that actually knows the answer.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study many dangerous cosmic phenomena, knowledge of which may help save humanity.