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For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything” to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?
Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.
Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.
The natural wonders of Mauritius include the spectacular sight of an underwater waterfall. Here’s the science of how it works.
The first supernova ever discovered through its X-rays has an enormously powerful engine at its core. It’s unlike anything ever seen.
In the philosophy of Star Wars, the Sith are evil because they surrender to passion. But is a life of total rationality a “good” life?
Starting just about now, leaves start changing color from north to south, high to low, light to dark.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
Slimy biofilms made up of bacterial and eukaryotic life forms have taken over an abandoned, flooded uranium mine in Germany.
Earth is the Solar System’s only known inhabited planet. Could Venus, if its phosphine signal is real, be our second world with life?
In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
For J.R.R. Tolkien, the single most important element of a fairy tale was the dramatic reversal of misfortune in the story’s ending.
No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?
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?”
Many people out there, including scientists, claim to have discovered a series of game-changing revolutions. Here’s why we don’t buy it.
From time-traveling billiard balls to information-destroying black holes, the world’s got plenty of puzzles that are hard to wrap your head around.
If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.
The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.
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?
Adolescents’ brains are highly capable, if inconsistent, during this critical age of exploration and development. They are also acutely tuned into rewards.
“Carpe diem” was only one part of Horace’s poem Odes 1.11.
Meet your new flying nightmare: Thapunngaka shawi.
Like Dua Lipa, he had to create new rules.
Daylight saving time was first implemented during the first world war to take advantage of longer daylight hours and save energy. While this made a difference when we heavily relied on coal […]
Previously, only the brightest and most active galaxies could pierce the obscuring wall of cosmic dust. At last, normal galaxies break through.
Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”
After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!
A new paper combines two concepts from the edges of astrophysics: Dyson Spheres and black holes. A Type III civilization could combine them.