A single lifetime is more than enough to take you to the limits of the Universe. Right now, there are only three things limiting how far our spacecrafts can take […]
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Meaningful pictures are assembled from meaningless noise.
When was the last time you spent some quality time with yourself?
There’s more light than we can account for, and we’ve just measured it robustly for the first time. When we look out at the darkest night skies available on Earth, even […]
A clever new design introduces a way to image the vast ocean floor.
The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is the event of a lifetime.
The architecture and infrastructure found may well have required the greatest amount of skilled labor of any construction from the same time period in the entire continent.
Even if you aren’t in the path of totality, you can still use the solar eclipse to measure how long it takes the Moon to orbit Earth.
As the first Friedmann equation celebrates its 99th anniversary, it remains the one equation to describe our entire universe.
The dark genome makes up 98% of human DNA. Scientists are just beginning to understand its role in cognitive disorders.
The knobby starfish skeleton has diamond-like properties and could inspire new designs for lightweight, highly resilient ceramics, with widespread applications in engineering and construction.
Something isn’t adding up, but it isn’t a calibration error. It’s been nearly 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. Ever since, the scientists who study the […]
University of Tokyo scientists observe predicted quantum biochemical effects on cells.
For the cosmos, it’s all too easy being green. Stars come in a wide variety of colors, but never green. Stars form in a wide variety of sizes, colors and masses, […]
According to Tolkien, fantasy requires a deep imagination known as “sub-creation.” And the genre reflects a fundamental truth of being human.
Roughly the size of a thumbnail, this newly discovered toadlet has some anatomical surprises.
We haven’t seen a partial eclipse lasting this long since 1440, and won’t again until 2669. North America is perfectly positioned for 2021’s.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today’s number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
Radar astronomy is nothing new, but a new transmitter may give us unprecedented image resolution.
The inside of every black hole leads to the birth of a new Universe. Could our Universe have arisen from one?
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
It had long seemed impossible that supermassive black holes could grow to such enormous sizes. But the biggest problem is now solved.
By the end of the decade, we may discover one million black holes. A large enough mass in a compact volume inevitably forms a black hole. Both inside and outside the […]
If it weren’t for a subatomic quantum rule, our Universe would be vastly different. In many ways, our views of the distant Universe are the closest things we’ll ever get […]
Altos Labs is an ambitious new anti-aging company with billions of dollars to back it up.
“Should they strike, each of them has an energy at impact equal to all of the nuclear weapons on Earth combined.”
The laws of physics state that you can’t create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?
Seneca thought the use of ice was a “true fever of the most malignant kind.”
When supermassive black holes merge, they emit more energy than anything else to occur in our Universe except the Big Bang.
Today, supermassive black holes and their host galaxies tell a specific story in terms of mass. But JWST reveals a different story early on.