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It’s all about the feeding window.
If they have mass, then why don’t we see any slow-moving ones? For decades, the neutrino was among the most puzzling and elusive of cosmic particles. It took more than […]
What can the beauty of autumn’s colors teach us about mortality?
The object, originally dubbed “Ultima Thule,” was renamed to “Arrokoth” due to the connection between the word “Thule” and the Nazis.
Melting ice is turning up bodies on Mt. Everest. This isn’t as shocking as you’d think.
We just found a system that we can’t explain. Here’s what’s going on. One of the most fascinating facts about the Universe is that there’s so much of it out there. […]
There could have been life on Mars in the past, but that’s only the beginning of the story. For as long as humanity has been watching the skies, we’ve been fascinated […]
In 1789, William Herschel discovered this unique moon around Saturn. 230 years later, its secrets are more promising than ever. Today marks the 230th anniversary of the discovery of Enceladus, one […]
A completely unexpected discovery beneath the ice.
The idea of ‘absolute time’ is an illusion. Physics and subjective experience reveal why.
And Dr. Jill Tarter never once lost her composure.
If there are cracks in Einstein’s theory, this is how to find them. Is Einstein’s most powerful theory, General Relativity, always correct? Or will there come a point where it breaks […]
If you were to compress the entire history of the Universe into one calendar year, everything we love happens on December 31st. Our Universe has been around for 13.8 billion years […]
Why are soda and ice cream each linked to violence? This article delivers the final word on what people mean by “correlation does not imply causation.”
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Scientists speculate that if life were to have spontaneously developed on Earth, the first thing there would need to be are vesicles.
A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
Cheese is one of the latest products to be used to create biogas.
“Nothing but naked people: fat ones, thin ones, old, young…”
It’s strange to think that something that died 76m years ago plays a role in modern ecosystems, but life is opportunistic.
One of the scientists with the Viking missions says yes.
The findings of the controversial study flew in the face of past research on ice gains in Antarctica.
The first wave of the retailer’s anticipated automated delivery fleet hits the sidewalks.
Many people, including some scientists, fear that the coming 5G WiFi revolution will harm humans. Here’s why that’s unfounded. Over the coming few years, a new set of infrastructure will […]
We’re bored, and we’ve lost our ability to be awestruck and amazed. Let’s fix that.
Until about a decade ago, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars.
Your opinions about a large number of complex scientific issues are probably wrong. That’s why we have science. In 2016, an Italian virologist named Roberto Burioni was invited to appear on […]
Extraterrestrial life should arise fairly easily. But intelligence is another matter entirely. Planet Earth has been around for the past 4.5 billion years or so: about the last third of […]
Fauna and flora refuse to go quietly into the Anthropocene.