You’ve certainly seen the paintings — but they don’t depict what you think they do. Benjamin Moser discusses with Big Think.
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Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that’s visible from Earth, and then some!
Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s airship startup hits a major milestone.
Cryo-electron tomography, or cryo-ET, is the future of cell research.
It’s the very closest stars to us that hold the key to unlocking the possibilities for life in star systems all throughout the Universe.
There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life’s final extinction will occur.
McDermitt Caldera, the site of an ancient volcanic eruption, straddles the border of Oregon and Nevada.
13.8 billion years ago, the hot Big Bang gave rise to the Universe we know. Here’s why the reverse, a Big Crunch, isn’t how it will end.
Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.
After almost a century in print, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” still has lessons to teach us.
Professional astronomy images are the gold standard. But this Large Magellanic Cloud composite is the amateur community’s best image ever.
There are many things that separate science from ideology, politics, philosophy, or religion. Follow these 10 commandments to get it right.
‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
Back in 1990, we hadn’t discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would’ve surprised every astronomer.
Studying neuroscience through art.
Uncertainty is inherent to our Universe.
LK-99, almost certainly, isn’t a room-temperature superconductor. The underlying physics of the phenomenon helps us understand why.
Harmony and moderation make for a happier life.
CERN scientists achieved record-breaking accuracy in mapping the mass of a key particle in the Standard Model.
Like humans, stars die. The James Webb Space Telescope’s early images already give us a lot of information about how this happens.
He peppers his sentences with words like “neat” and “cool,” he’s not great at working the room after dinner — oh, and he’s a peerless visionary.
90’s kids know him from All That, Kenan & Kel, and Good Burger. This is Kel Mitchell, who sat down with us to share how he persevered through some of the hardest moments of his life.
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There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data. What have we really learned from it all?
A recent study highlights the astounding adaptability of the human brain.
Could we finally detect the elusive Unruh effect?
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.
Once the initial blaze of heat dissipated, the constituent particles of atoms were free to bind.
Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.
It happened more than once, and needed to. Here’s why. If there’s one thing you can be certain about when it comes to outer space, it’s that it’s transparent, not opaque, […]