In pre-War Cambridge, students had to ace an interview with Ludwig Wittgenstein to attend his lectures — Alan Turing passed that test, and went on to create one of his own.
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Quantum physics isn’t quite magic, but it requires an entirely novel set of rules to make sense of the quantum universe.
Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren’t the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.
Einstein hated “spooky action at a distance,” but much to his chagrin, quantum mechanics remains as spooky as ever.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
One of the winners. Dr. K. Barry Sharpless, is now the fifth person in history to win two Nobels.
The road to happiness is indirect and full of frustration.
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Red dwarf stars were supposed to be inhospitable. But TOI-700, now with at least two potentially habitable worlds, is quite the exception.
Travel half the distance to your destination, and there’s always another half to go. Despite Zeno’s Paradox, you always arrive right on time.
If it wasn’t a singularity, how small could it have been? Today, when you look out in any direction as far as the laws of physics allow us to see, the […]
Even the dictionary doesn’t get the definition right.
The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.
Most popular songs are about love and heartache. But some great songs — albeit underrated and perhaps a bit weird — are about the cities we love.
A new generation of leaders is forging a path for 21st-century capitalism that’s both profitable and socially responsible.
Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.
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.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
Oxygen isn’t strictly necessary for combustion, but it is ideal. Any advanced (alien) civilization probably uses oxygen to burn things.
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.
Some ozone experts seriously doubt the findings.
Defy conventional startup wisdom by charting a steady and impactful path to success.
It rotates on its axis, revolves around the Sun, moves throughout the Milky Way, and gets carried by our galaxy all throughout space.
Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.
Humanity is in trouble. Here’s how aliens could help.
“Spanish Stonehenge” contains 526 giant stones, three circular burial sites, a quarry, and four necropolises.
Augmented reality (AR) contact lenses will project the digital world into our retinas, perhaps helping us navigate the metaverse.
Measurements of the acceleration of the universe don’t agree, stumping physicists working to understand the cosmic past and future. A new proposal seeks to better align these estimates — and is likely testable.
The Solar System isn’t a vortex, but rather the sum of all our great cosmic motions. Here’s how we move through space.
Despite all the challenges, Hubble has vindicated this discovery. Practically everywhere we look in the Universe, the large-scale objects that we see — small galaxies, large galaxies, groups and clusters of galaxies, […]