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The high pitches from the flute and the harp would reach your ears before the notes from the tuba and the cello.
Despite Betelgeuse’s recent faintening and brightening, I’d bet on these stars instead. Betelgeuse, a nearby red supergiant, will someday explode. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way should […]
Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.
Though difficult to watch, films like “Shoah” and “Life of Crime” cover topics that should not be ignored.
The Crab Nebula goes back to 1054, opening a window into our cosmic past. On July 4, 1054, Chinese astronomers recorded a “guest star” in the Taurus constellation. A ‘guest star’ […]
A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here’s why such a machine could end up being a massive waste of money.
Even 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, we can reconstruct the first 3 minutes. About 100 years ago, we began to truly understand the nature of the Universe for the […]
Winner takes all, losers die, and participants have no choice but to play.
An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
You can’t throw a DART at everything in space.
More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history’s most interesting experiments in commodity money.
We often laugh at inappropriate things, but not when we are emotionally invested. Laughter cannot be serious. So, can we ever laugh at death?
If you want to know what the Universe is like, you have to look at it in the right way. Only by observing it can we know what the Universe is […]
‘Reductio ad absurdum’ won’t help you in an absurd Universe. Throughout history, there have been two main ways humanity has attempted to gain knowledge about the world: top-down, where we […]
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
GPS holds the key, but astronomers can’t do it without help. Since 2019, the night sky — as seen by both human eyes and the telescopes we use to enhance our views of […]
The Hyperloop is physically possible, but engineering challenges will make its construction very difficult. Also, accidents would be catastrophic.
The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.
Social isolation, back pain, and screen fatigue getting you down?
Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton’s second law.
NASA was dangerously cavalier about the dangers of the shuttle launches.
The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.
This discovery could lead to better treatments for PTSD, borderline personality disorder, and epilepsy.
On larger and larger scales, many of the same structures we see at small ones repeat themselves. Do we live in a fractal Universe?