When searching for extraterrestrial life, astronomers may want to look at planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres.
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The war machine needs fuel, perhaps so much as to make protecting oil redundant.
A glimpse into what a sustainable, inclusive future will look like.
Employees from Amazon and Microsoft plan to join the global protest, too.
The future of food sounds bleak, but it doesn’t need to be this way.
As more data comes in, the puzzle gets deeper and deeper. Whenever you set out to solve a problem, there are a series of steps you have to take in order […]
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From Newton to today’s scientists, we’re only seeing part of the story unfold.
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How did the Antarctic explorers survive tedium in the early 1900s?
If you think about the way a gravitational wave detector works, you might encounter a paradox. Here’s the solution. One of the greatest scientific achievements in all of human history […]
Just because your team has gone remote doesn’t mean you need to be vulnerable to hacks, breaches, and scams.
There really is a cosmic conundrum about how fast the Universe is expanding. Changing its age won’t help. One of the most surprising and interesting discoveries of the 21st century is […]
If you think nothing can move faster than light, check out this clever way to defeat that limit. Nothing can move faster than the speed of light. When Einstein set forth […]
You might be inclined to modify gravity instead, but those ideas have grossly unequal evidence supporting them. What is it, exactly, that you’re supposed to do when the predictions of […]
A cosmic puzzle is finally solved, as new observations answer the question of why this galaxy exists at all. For the last couple of years, astronomy has had a tremendous puzzle […]
The relatively quick evolution of nine unusual shark species has scientists intrigued.
How many potentially habitable planets are there? We sincerely don’t know. One of the most compelling scientific goals humanity has set for itself is to find extraterrestrial life: biological activity originating […]
After living through a terrible epidemic, two inventors have created a self-cleaning door handle.
Innovative use of blockchain tech, data trusts, algorithm assessments, and cultural shifts abound.
General Relativity has nothing to do with light or electromagnetism at all. So how to gravitational waves know to travel at the speed of light? There are two fundamental classes of […]
Studies have shown that dominant sexual activity can often boost your work ethic several days after a sexual experience.
Disney, one of world’s largest entertainment companies, doubles down on its environmental plan.
We’ve never found eight stars bound together in the same stable system. But nature might make it so. The Universe that we have is often more wondrous and bizarre than even […]
The outer edges of a black hole might be “fuzzy” instead of neat and smooth.
Most of us know not to procrastinate. And yet, between 80 and 95 percent of college students procrastinate on their schoolwork. As we grow older and (theoretically) more mature, we […]
Recycling is linear, but the economy shouldn’t be.
About 21 percent of gamers in the United States are over the age of 50.
Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz just won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. It couldn’t be more well-deserved. Every year, the Nobel Prize reminds all of humanity to […]
Depending on how you measure it, there are two different answers that could be right. If you want to see what’s out there in the Universe, you first have to be […]