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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 […]
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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. […]
The dream of multi-messenger astronomy is to seen an event with gravitational waves, neutrinos, and light all together. The newest candidate just might get us there. When it comes to cataclysmic […]
If your New Year’s resolution was to get in shape, signing up for the marathon is a bad way to go about it.
It’s all about the feeding window.
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 […]
What can the beauty of autumn’s colors teach us about mortality?
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 […]
The object, originally dubbed “Ultima Thule,” was renamed to “Arrokoth” due to the connection between the word “Thule” and the Nazis.
The beads are made from red-deer teeth, sourced from 63 individual deer.
“Nothing but naked people: fat ones, thin ones, old, young…”
The idea of ‘absolute time’ is an illusion. Physics and subjective experience reveal why.
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 […]
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 […]
Melting ice is turning up bodies on Mt. Everest. This isn’t as shocking as you’d think.
Scientists speculate that if life were to have spontaneously developed on Earth, the first thing there would need to be are vesicles.
A completely unexpected discovery beneath the ice.
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 […]
Cheese is one of the latest products to be used to create biogas.
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 […]
One of the scientists with the Viking missions says yes.
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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Until about a decade ago, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars.
It’s strange to think that something that died 76m years ago plays a role in modern ecosystems, but life is opportunistic.
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, […]
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 […]
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