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The ‘final parsec problem’ is still a mystery for astronomers. When it comes to black holes in the Universe, we know there are at least two major types. There are […]
A tourist generally has an eye for the things that have become almost invisible to the resident.
Israeli food-tech company DouxMatok (Hebrew for “double sweet”) has created a sugary product that uses 40 percent less actual sugar yet still tastes sweet.
A report from the New York Times raises questions over how the teletherapy startup Talkspace handles user data.
Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]
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 […]
Ground-penetrating radar allows the non-invasive virtual excavation of Falerii Novi.
Now an insult, ‘cretin’ was the medical term for a debilitating disease endemic in the Alps until the early 20th century.
Alexandre Dumas’ famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.
Most of Stonehenge’s megaliths, called sarens, came from West Woods, Wiltshire.
Many of the bathrooms uncovered at Pompeii and elsewhere were communal.
And could Earth-based life provide the seeds for biology elsewhere? Today, on Earth, there’s an enormous variety and diversity of life on our planet. Every single surviving lifeform appears, in […]
Cybercriminals have a wide variety of motivations for their attacks, and, correspondingly, there are a wide variety of targets. While few of us will find ourselves in positions where we […]
The world’s most isolated inhabited island also has some of the world’s strangest toponyms.
At just 3 solar masses, it eliminates the “mass gap.” Searching for black holes is one of the most difficult astronomical games a scientist can play. Emitting no light of their […]
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in science. But what are they? One of the major goals of science is to describe our reality as accurately as possible. […]
Few career moves can make as immediate an impact as adding some advanced certifications to the resume. Meanwhile, the right certifications can increase your salary by as much as 40%.
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Astrophysicists calculate the likely number of civilization out there capable of communicating with us.
Physicists propose using time crystals to bring about a quantum computing revolution.
The world isn’t ending! But we are likely at the beginning of a profound transformation.
Understanding the math behind social distancing.
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
If we’re migrating slowly away, is our speed changing, too? Every year, planet Earth completes one revolution around the Sun while spinning on its axis. On a year-to-year basis, our […]
How did the Antarctic explorers survive tedium in the early 1900s?
They’re not just a theoretical prediction of quantum gravity. They should be detectable, too. The Universe, if you look at it closely and carefully enough, is fundamentally quantum in nature. […]
How do you overcome the tension between autonomy and solidarity?
If economic growth knowingly increases mass-scale suffering, can we stop chasing it?
The anthropic principle has some fascinating scientific uses. And abuses, too. For thousands of years, humans have pondered the meaning of our existence. From philosophers who debated whether their minds could […]