We confidently state that the Universe is known to be 13.8 billion years old, with an uncertainty of just 1%. Here’s how we know.
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Perhaps wormholes will no longer be relegated to the realm of science fiction.
It is easy to underestimate how much the world can change within a lifetime.
New research suggests they may be in the connections between your brain cells.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
From Nick Carraway to Charles Marlow, these side characters offered truths their scene-stealing protagonists couldn’t.
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A team of scientists managed to install onto a smartphone a spectrometer that’s capable of identifying specific molecules — with cheap parts you can buy online.
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What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
You really can get by with a little help from your friends — if you also look beyond your personal to-do list.
Maybe the brain isn’t “classical” after all.
Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?
If your computer crashes, it might be due to a star that exploded somewhere in the Universe millions of years ago.
Jules Verne wrote about gasoline-powered vehicles, weapons of mass destruction, and global warming more than a century ago.
When we look out at the Universe, even with Hubble, we’re only seeing the closest, biggest, brightest galaxies. Here’s where the rest are.
And can we devise an experiment to tell, even when we aren’t looking? One of the most bizarre aspects of quantum physics is that the fundamental entities that make up the […]
What began as an annoyance ended as a Nobel Prize-winning discovery about the Big Bang and the origin of the Universe.
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is.
The authors call it “wildly theoretical” — but let’s take a look, anyway.
Brown noise, the better-known white noise, and even pink noise are all sonic hues.
The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.
Beautiful people really know how to catch a break.
When we view hard work as a sign of low aptitude, it harms our ability to learn and grow.
Here’s what Europe would have looked like if the Confederation of the Danube had been established after WWII.