At very high and very low temperatures, matter takes on properties that open up an entire Universe of remarkable new possibilities.
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Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
Just say no to artist’s illustrations. This is what the Universe actually looks like. The Universe we observe often surpasses our greatest imaginings. This 20-year time-lapse of stars near the center […]
Want some crazy space phenomena? You don’t have to leave the neighborhood for it.
Even with leap years and long-term planning, our calendar won’t be good forever. Here’s why, and how to fix it.
Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that’s visible from Earth, and then some!
These distant cousins of starfish live on sea floors around the globe.
Archaeologists discover a cave painting of a wild pig that is now the world’s oldest dated work of representational art.
The complacent majority needs to step up and call for action on climate change.
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The peasant turned czarist advisor has come to be known and feared as the devil incarnate, but was he really as demonic as we have been led to believe?
New studies find the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the most “pristine” ever discovered.
Our views from the red planet’s surface are more spectacular than ever. Ever since the earliest spaceflight, humanity has reached for Mars. This photo composite shows Meande Ring, a river on […]
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
A leading British space scientist thinks there is life under the ice sheets of Europa.
Our social instincts can lead us to adopt models of desire that might not serve our interests.
There are over 100 known elements in the periodic table. These 8 ways of making them account for every one.
Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
It contains more water than all the Great Lakes combined, and the science of our planet explains why. Although practically all of Earth’s human population lives on dry land, our surface […]
For the fewer than 50 people with this blood type, finding a blood transfusion could be extremely difficult.
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here’s what it could do to Earth.
The results could help NASA’s Perseverance rover find evidence of ancient life on Mars.
The Vertebrate Genomes Project may spell good news for the kakapo and the vaquita.
The list includes eleven species of birds, eight species of freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat, and a plant from the mint family.
The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.
To answer any physical question, you must ask the Universe itself. But what happens when the answers aren’t around anymore?
At its biggest for the next 15 years, it’s still much smaller than the Moon. On October 6, 2020, Mars makes its closest approach to Earth until 2035. Earth orbits in […]
The credibility problem facing the biomedical and public health establishment is, at least in part, a product of its own making.
They say that seein’ is believin’. But everything we see has to have a scientific explanation. When you look at the Sun on a day where there’s a clear sky, […]
A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]