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A tiny grain found within a meteorite in Antarctica sheds light on how the solar system itself came to be.
One of the scientists with the Viking missions says yes.
A few traditions in the Roman Catholic Church can be traced back to pagan cults, rites, and deities.
When searching for extraterrestrial life, astronomers may want to look at planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres.
If you think ‘particles are matter’ and ‘antiparticles are antimatter,’ think again. In this Universe, there are certain rules that have never been observed to be broken. Some of these […]
It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]
A song many consider the black national anthem rises again in the United States.
Well-lit cities and towns are essential to public safety. That doesn’t have to ruin the night sky. For most of us here on planet Earth, navigating the world at night is […]
From literature to physics, the annual Nobel Prizes aim to highlight the most groundbreaking achievements in every field.
Thought expriments are great tools, but do they always do what we want them to?
Insomnia is the product of mental or emotional pressure.
A vacuum cleaner is the wrong picture. Time to bust that myth. There are no classes of object in our Universe more extreme than black holes. With so much mass present […]
When the Universe expands, photons redshift to longer wavelengths and lower energies. So where does that energy go? Imagine the ultimate version of a toy Universe: it’s expanding, it’s full of […]
A mysterious startup reveals a groundbreaking solar energy achievement.
The Hollywood blockbuster may have been right, if only 3.2 billion years off the mark.
From travel restrictions to forced isolation, the new coronavirus brings psychological threats, too.
The transition across a quantum barrier is known as quantum tunneling, and the amount of time it takes for such a transition to occur had never been measured before. For […]
People who score high in “dark triad” personality traits are able to empathize. They’d just rather not.
The world’s greatest observatory can go no further with its current instrument set. The Hubble Space Telescope has provided humanity with our deepest views of the Universe ever. It has […]
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
Or, quite possibly, is it more complex than either one of those scenarios? If there’s one lesson that humanity should have learned from the 20th century, it’s this: the Universe […]
A tiny, perfectly preserved 3D fossil from Argentina tells us more about an early snake.
Young galaxies are bright and blue; old galaxies are red and dead. So how did this old, red galaxy form so early? The observable Universe contains two trillion distinct galaxies, but […]
It’s one of cosmology’s biggest unsolved mysteries. The strongest argument against it may have just evaporated. The ultimate goal of cosmology contains the greatest ambition of any scientific field: to […]
The solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, was the nail in the coffin of a Newtonian Universe. On May 29, 1919, the world changed forever. For hundreds of years, Isaac […]
From the inflationary state that preceded the Big Bang to our cold, lonely, dark energy-dominated fate, the Universe goes through six different eras. We’re living in the last one already. The […]
Device for harnessing terahertz radiation might enable self-powering implants, cellphones, other portable electronics.
What if we could just skip the workout part and take the results in supplement form? Researchers did it… On mice and flies.