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What most people don’t realize is that everyone’s imagery is different.
A new AI-generated map of dark matter shows previously undiscovered filamentary structures connecting galaxies.
Let’s celebrate the progress, but put the cork back in the champagne bottle.
The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.
No. No no no. Just… no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it’s a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
The decades-long conflict is best understood not through secondhand accounts of historians, but the primary accounts of people who actually experienced it.
The mummy was first thought to be a male priest. But a recent radiological analysis revealed a surprising anomaly.
Even the ones hunting for aliens aren’t excited. Here’s the reason why. In this world, there are very few issues more polarizing than the notion of aliens. For as long as […]
Based on the atoms that they’re made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here’s why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
Research finds that our sense of self can be manipulated by certain smells and sounds.
Time always moves in the same direction, but what if the Universe were contracting? As we step forward in time, a number of things always seem to happen together. Objects […]
By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.
Magnetic monopoles began as a mere theoretical curiosity. They might hold the key to understanding so much more.
Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we’re uncovering our own history.
Can we stop mass shootings? The first step is collecting data, and these authors have done just that.
How long should one wait until an idea like string theory, seductive as it may be, is deemed unrealistic?
Stockholm Syndrome is the most famous of 10 psychological disorders named after world cities. Most relate to tourism or hostage-taking.
The size of rabbits and hares has long been evolutionarily constrained by competitors roughly their size.
The successor to Hubble is almost ready for launch. It’s really coming this year, too! NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, originally proposed in the 1990s, is finally slated to launch later […]
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.
Bolsheviks planned to erect a towering monument to the socialist cause, but their quixotic ideas never got off the ground.
It’s a wild idea, but there’s a way to test it. No matter how far we look out in the Universe, there’s always more “Universe” to see. Even at the extreme […]
If dark matter exists in a large halo in our galaxy, made up of particles, then it’s passing through us constantly. But how much?
The Metaverse could be the most dangerous tool of persuasion humanity has ever created.
A new study from NASA and the SETI Institute comes up with an exciting number of potentially life-supporting planets.
From galaxies with no dark matter to ones with hundreds of times more dark matter than normal, our Universe needs it more than ever. One of the most mysterious substances in […]
Information economics suggests that “no news” means somebody is hiding something. But people are bad at noticing that.