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From Nick Carraway to Charles Marlow, these side characters offered truths their scene-stealing protagonists couldn’t.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
Maybe the brain isn’t “classical” after all.
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
Taco Thursdays and free yoga have their limits — for lasting workplace happiness leaders need to think about purpose.
Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.
If your computer crashes, it might be due to a star that exploded somewhere in the Universe millions of years ago.
When we look out at the Universe, even with Hubble, we’re only seeing the closest, biggest, brightest galaxies. Here’s where the rest are.
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
You really can get by with a little help from your friends — if you also look beyond your personal to-do list.
Beautiful people really know how to catch a break.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.
The authors call it “wildly theoretical” — but let’s take a look, anyway.
Brown noise, the better-known white noise, and even pink noise are all sonic hues.
What began as an annoyance ended as a Nobel Prize-winning discovery about the Big Bang and the origin of the Universe.
Here’s what Europe would have looked like if the Confederation of the Danube had been established after WWII.
The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.
It does not matter if intelligent life exists elsewhere. We will never find each other.
Our Solar System’s outer reaches, and what’s in them, was predicted long before the first Oort Cloud object was ever discovered.
When we view hard work as a sign of low aptitude, it harms our ability to learn and grow.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
Astronomers find a third type of supernova and explain a mystery from 1054 AD.
Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
Whether or not life exists elsewhere in the Universe, we can be assured of one thing: We are the only human beings in the cosmos.
The secret ingredient is violence, and it just might indicate that “moonmoons” aren’t as uncommon as most astronomers think.