A new paper suggests a primordial black hole may be making things weird at the edge of our solar system.
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Healing from a break-up should be taken as seriously as healing from a broken arm, says psychiatrist Dr. Guy Winch.
The solar farm is expected to save the airport millions over the following decades.
Our social emotions are now being hijacked by robots.
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An immune molecule sometimes produced during infection can influence the social behavior of mice.
You’d be amazed at what you can learn from even one single pixel. Over the past decade, owing largely to NASA’s Kepler mission, our knowledge of planets around star systems beyond […]
And what do we still have left to learn? The original idea of a black hole goes all the way back to 1783, when Cambridge scientist John Michell recognized that a […]
Different methods of measuring the expansion rate give different values. This one linchpin is key. In science, different methods of measuring the same properties should yield the same results. The expanding […]
‘Millennial’ doesn’t hold nearly as much meaning as Americans pretend it does. Here’s why.
The Internet Research Agency has learned that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
The concept was likened to a porch light in our little neighborhood of the galaxy.
For billions of years, dark energy couldn’t have been detected. Now, it’s everywhere we look. When we look out at the ultra-distant Universe, billion of light-years away, we’re seeing it as […]
We’ve never seen an image of a black hole’s event horizon before. Here’s what we’re expecting, based on what we already know. For hundreds of years, physicists have hypothesized that the […]
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LIGO and Virgo have now detected a total of 11 binary merger events. But exactly 0 were in the Milky Way. Here’s why. One of the most spectacular recent advances in […]
In his book, Earth Emotions, Glenn Albrecht coins “psychoterratic.”
When these particles are eaten by earthworms, the results are not good.
Helium and carbon are made copiously in the interiors of stars. But the in-between elements? They’re rarities everywhere. If you were to take every element in the periodic table and […]
She may not be ours forever.
Faraday’s law of induction was set forth in 1834, and was the experiment that led Einstein to discover relativity. When we think about Einstein and the theory of relativity, all […]
Maybe you’ve heard the term “self-actualization” bandied about at a party or by an inspirational speaker? Popularized by psychologist Abraham Maslow, the theory argues that we can realize our full […]
Sleep deprivation leads to a shutdown in the production of essential proteins.
Is it time media outlets stop publishing the names and photographs of mass shooters?
Can collective protest still change the world?
In all the Universe, there’s only one Earth. But can we find the other worlds that are like ours? Even though the ingredients for life have been confirmed to be practically […]
The present? Blink and you’ll miss it. And other musings on time.
On May 9, 2016, the prior transit of Mercury occurred, and was photographed many times on a practically continuous basis by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Transits of Mercury are rare, […]