Hubble showed us what our modern day Universe looks like. JWST's big goal was to teach us how the Universe grew up. Here's where we are now.
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As the American population grows, fewer people will die of cancer.
It's that time of year when the hours of meticulous wrapping of Christmas toys are viciously undone in seconds by tiny children.
The most momentous and significant events in our lives are the ones we do not see coming. Life is defined by the unforeseen.
In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age.
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
Hunter-gatherers probably had more spare time than you.
The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST's eyes, astronomers found so much more.
Temporal lobe epilepsy seems to rewire a part of the brain that's key to storing memories.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
If we waited long enough, would even protons themselves decay? There are certain things in the Universe that, if you leave them alone for long enough, they’ll eventually decay away. […]
Science was never the same after meeting ‘the particle who lived.’ Back in the early 1930s, there were only a few known fundamental particles that made up the Universe. If you […]
From up close, the cracking sound of a thunderclap dominates. From far away, it's more like a drawn-out rumble. Can science explain why?
The Taupo volcano was responsible for one of the most violent eruptions on record.
After 100 million nights of people asking, "What are those twinkly lights?" it is pretty remarkable that we happen to live in one of the first generations that actually knows the answer.
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
Argentina's black market for cash is embracing crypto — but it's not what crypto proponents expected.
If stars don't go supernova at first, they can get a second chance after becoming a white dwarf. But can their companions survive?
Although equal parts Hollywood blockbuster and Putinist propaganda, "Trotsky" still manages to capture the good, the bad, and the ugly of Russia’s revolutionary past.
Photons come in every wavelength you can imagine. But one particular quantum transition makes light at precisely 21 cm, and it's magical.
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
Some question the ethics of sanctions aimed at cancelling Russian art and culture and punishing ordinary citizens.
Today, we could use Big Data to radically reform democracy. Tomorrow, we could build nanofabricators and usher in an era of abundance. Is society ready?
Anything, good or bad, about Henry Ford can be contradicted — except his ambition and his work.
With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?
Yet, if they only obey the rules that we know, there’s no way to explain why. One of the greatest puzzles in all of physics is that the laws of nature — as […]
Back in 1990, we hadn't discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would've surprised every astronomer.
The first world that humans should inhabit beyond the Earth is the Moon, not Mars. Here's why terraforming our lunar neighbor is so appealing.
Too many people still view stay-at-home dads as feckless deadbeats, but their acceptance is an important step toward gender equality.