It’s the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.
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Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.
Would you want to live in any of these places?
Einstein’s relativity overthrew the notion of absolute space and time, replacing them with a spacetime fabric. But is spacetime truly real?
Your expectations form the way you experience the world.
From “Thompson’s violinist” to the “Experience Machine,” these thought experiments will throw your mind for a loop.
If dark matter exists in a large halo in our galaxy, made up of particles, then it’s passing through us constantly. But how much?
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.
Time isn’t the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.
Has the “age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?
Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.
Achieving values and pursuing growth is the real secret to a fulfilled life.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything” to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?
Could we finally detect the elusive Unruh effect?
Hubble’s still going strong after 31+ years. James Webb will never make it that long. Every decision that’s made — in both astronomy and in life — comes with its own set of pros and […]
Just by observing the tiny amount of deuterium left over from the Big Bang, we can determine that dark matter and dark energy must exist.
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.
Women have made incredible gains into STEM fields, but they continue to face gender biases in the workplace.
There is no long-term beneficial effect of medication on standardized test scores.
What do we mean by a black hole’s size? A photon sphere? The minimal stable orbit? The event horizon? The singularity? Which one is right?
It isn’t just identical particles that can be entangled, but even those with fundamentally different properties interfere with each other.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
The nearby, bright star Fomalhaut had the first optically imaged planetary candidate. Using JWST’s eyes, astronomers found so much more.
A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.
Contrary to popular research, people with more money are happier, but it’s their spending habits, not their account balances, that move the dial.