The universe is only 13.8 billion years old, but we can see back 46.1 billion light-years. Here’s how the expanding universe does it.
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The way we imagine and listen to melodies sheds light on imagination.
This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.
Astronomers used supercomputers and an international network of antennas to create the stunning map.
The idea of “absolute time” was our default for millennia. But time is relative, as gravity and motion both cause time to dilate.
Every timekeeping device works via a version of a pendulum — even the atomic clocks that are accurate to nanoseconds.
Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.
When science is a source of spirituality in people’s lives, they feel happy and engaged.
As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.
The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.
There is no such thing as a void in the Universe.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
The popular game has a backstory rife with segregation, inequality, intellectual theft, and outlandish political theories.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
TikTok and its allies won’t go down without a legal fight.
When you don’t have enough clues to bring your detective story to a close, you should expect that your educated guesses will all be wrong.
Science isn’t synonymous with technology; it’s about a way of thinking.
Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.
Bad news: Sleeping in on the weekends probably won’t cut it.
Schopenhauer and Freud can help teams navigate the most prickly of collaboration problems.
A recent study sheds light on the evolutionary history of rhinoceroses and their remarkably low levels of genetic diversity.
Beer’s flavor begins to change as soon as it is packaged. Are cans or bottles better at preserving flavor?
Nobody likes the uneasy feeling of being watched — so can there be any workplace benefit to the all-seeing eye?
As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery… consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
A cute mathematical trick can “rescale” the Universe so that it isn’t actually expanding. But can that “trick” survive all our cosmic tests?
Roger Babson wanted a “partial insulator, reflector, or absorber of gravity” — something, anything, that would stop or dampen it.
Chemists could replace bubbling flasks with tumbling ball mills.
Nevada has the fewest number of native-born citizens.
Here’s what recent DESI measurements suggest — and why it’s too early to update conventional predictions about the Universe’s distant future.
To study the origin of the Universe, we could build a constellation of six expensive spacecraft — or we could just use the Moon.