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No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?

Anything, good or bad, about Henry Ford can be contradicted — except his ambition and his work.

Don’t wait until Christmas to gift a telescope this year. All throughout the year, two bright lights have stood out in the post-sunset skies. Earlier this year, on March 31, 2020, […]

NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.

Regardless of your age, incorporate the piano into your life for better health.

Medical science can save lives, but should it do so at the cost of quality of life?

You’ll never have to pay for an image again.

Temporal lobe epilepsy seems to rewire a part of the brain that’s key to storing memories.

It’s that time of year when the hours of meticulous wrapping of Christmas toys are viciously undone in seconds by tiny children.

A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.

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?

Earth is the Solar System’s only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?

The most momentous and significant events in our lives are the ones we do not see coming. Life is defined by the unforeseen.

Many galaxies really are ultra-distant, but some are just intrinsically red or dusty. Only with spectroscopy can JWST tell which is which.

No planet enters retrograde more frequently than Mercury, which does so 3-4 times each year. Here’s the scientific explanation for why.

Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.

By projecting lifetime risk, an alarming new medical study centers the human lives that will be lost due to gun violence and drug addiction in the United States.

Too many people still view stay-at-home dads as feckless deadbeats, but their acceptance is an important step toward gender equality.

With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?

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The idea of gravitational redshift crossed Einstein’s mind years before General Relativity was complete. Here’s why it had to be there.

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.

As the American population grows, fewer people will die of cancer.

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.

There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?

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.

More than any other of Einstein’s equations, E = mc² is the most recognizable to people. But what does it all mean?

The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”

The Taupo volcano was responsible for one of the most violent eruptions on record.