Traveling to the future is possible, but the “back” part runs into trouble. Mr. Strickland: “I noticed your band is on the roster for the dance auditions after school today. […]
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Elizabeth Kenny went against conventional methods for treating polio and believed a patient should have an active role in their recovery.
And is blue even a rare color for planets? “Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I’m on a time machine. I am back to that precious […]
Even when everything sucks, you can still feel thankful.
When they ask, will you tell them the truth, or something comforting? Why not do both! “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, […]
Is inertia of prior ideas the only thing keeping us from the next major revolution in science? This post was written by Brian Koberlein. Brian is an astrophysicist and Senior Lecturer […]
Our Sun gets its energy from fusion in its core. But can any light be made from the surface? “Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free […]
Penn State and Yale University astronomers, unable to explain strange data patterns they’re observing from a star, have come to the conclusion that there may be an “alien superstructure” orbiting it.
Star Trek’s ideal view of medicine is closer than we think.
13.8 billion years is a great number. But how sure are we of this, and how did we get there? “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We […]
Here’s some easy health advice we should all take with us into the New Year.
Life may have ended before it had a chance to begin. They’re calling this solution to the Fermi Paradox the Gaian Bottleneck. It’s not that life has never emerged in the universe — it just never had the chance to grow or evolve.
World’s biggest island? Up for discussion. The next 25? See this map.
Anyone not wanting to accept Syrian refugees should really consider this historical analogy.
The conceptual tools of science had to be painstakingly built. Turns out seemingly self-evident ideas like discovery and facts once weren’t so obvious. In The Invention of Science, David Wootton excavates their history.
Supernova remnants return the insides of exploded stars back to the Universe, making things like us possible. “No matter how ‘normal’ people look, living ‘ordinary’ lives, everyone has a story […]
A concern with quiet students’ well-being should not push us back to outdated educational models.
Not water, not ice, and definitely not aliens. Here’s how we know. “You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in […]
It’s not as black and white, left brain/right brain as the theories of yore.
These cosmic optical illusions are more common than you think. “I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.” –Ani DiFranco If […]
Even though we can’t see individual galaxies past a certain point, we know they’re there. Here’s the first evidence. “Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some […]
Ra Paulette spent 20 years carving caves into soapstone mountains. His passion for the transcendent brings us back to Earth.
How the future of astronomy — and something we can’t even see — might open up the dark Universe. This post is written by Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist specialized in quantum gravity & […]
Nick Lane believes he can explain the “black hole” at the heart of biology. And in the process predict traits that even alien life will have. Here are some amazing facts from biology.
And because of it, we can learn about quantum entanglement across a black hole’s event horizon. This article was contributed to Starts With A Bang by Sabine Hossenfelder, whose blog, Backreaction, […]
It’s time to address the gorilla in the room, and the high percentage of his income he’s spending to rent it.
When the news doesn’t tell you everything.
For the 70 million people who speak with their hands.
If energy is always conserved, then what “gains” the energy that photons lose as the Universe expands? “…in every kind of chemical change no loss of matter occurs […] in all […]
There’s a big, big difference between a “scientific” theory and all other types. It should make you more confident, not less. One of the most important things any expert hoping to […]