The stars, planets, and many moons are extremely round. Why don’t they take other shapes?
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Albert Camus was a Franco-Algerian philosopher with some great insights on the meaning of life, why you should look to this life and not the next, and why suicide is a poor choice.
Albert Einstein and his theory of general relativity continue to amaze us to this day.
Plants at room temperature show properties we had only seen near absolute zero.
In the early stages of our Solar System, there were three life-friendly planets: Venus, Earth, and Mars. Only Earth thrived. Here’s why.
“Superhabitable” planets might be real, but Earth is probably as good as it gets.
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
Scientific surprises, driven by experiment, are often how science advances. But more often than not, they’re just bad science.
From ancient Greek cosmology to today’s mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, explore the relentless quest to understand the Universe’s invisible forces.
Big Think columnist Adam Frank makes the case for why the 2023 video game Alan Wake 2 is a boundary-pushing piece of art.
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
The standard model of cosmology has a big new problem: Some galaxies seem to be too old.
Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb’s first deep-field image taught us lessons we’ve never realized before.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.
The evidence that the Universe is expanding is overwhelming. But how? By stretching the existing space, or by creating new space itself?
A new paper combines two concepts from the edges of astrophysics: Dyson Spheres and black holes. A Type III civilization could combine them.
If you want a medication to kick in faster, lean right.
Despite the enormous mass of the Earth, simply depleting our groundwater is changing our axial tilt. Simple Newtonian physics explains why.
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.
The Universe isn’t just expanding, the expansion is also accelerating. If that’s true, how will the Milky Way and Andromeda eventually merge?
More than any other of Einstein’s equations, E = mc² is the most recognizable to people. But what does it all mean?
A new artificial intelligence method removes the effect of gravity on cosmic images, showing the real shapes of distant galaxies.
In the infant Universe, particle physics reigned supreme.
If you don’t mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.
“The pulsar sort of consumes the thing that recycled it, just as the spider eats its mate.”
The false assumption the Multiverse relies on is that something which exists requires an explanation.
Although a great many unidentified sights have been seen in the skies, none have conclusively demonstrated the presence of aliens. So far.
Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.