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Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which “infinity” wins?
If we want our conclusions to be meaningful, our data had better be robust. When it comes to the Universe, there’s a whole lot that doesn’t add up. All the matter […]
Three decades after the demise of the GDR, its familiar contours keep coming back from the dead.
Centuries ago, the plague forced people into quarantine for years. Isaac Newton and Galileo used the time to revolutionize the world.
Geologists discover a rhythm to major geologic events.
The Sun produces a wide variety of particles and radiation throughout it, but all of its neutrinos are produced in the core: where nuclear reactions take place. The various reactions […]
Setting resolutions for the new year means you think the future is up to you — but is it?
Technology has advanced at a blinding pace in the past 150 years. That won’t always happen.
In tough competitions, men tend to give up early when they feel a low sense of control. Testosterone eradicates that effect.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
Scientists use tripping rats to show that LSD disrupts communication between two key brain regions.
For many, it was just a successful launch like any other. But for scientists around the globe, it was a victory few dared to imagine.
The most massive nearby stars could be the seeds our supermassive black holes need. The problem with the Universe, as we see it today, is that we only get a snapshot […]
See the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves.
What we’ve seen isn’t necessarily what we get, but the most common world doesn’t look like ours. There’s a very common myth out there in astronomy: the idea that the Sun […]
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
Black holes are the darkest objects of all. But are they made of dark matter? When it comes to the Universe, few objects are more compelling, fascinating, or extreme than black […]
When you mix science with speculation, you get speculation. But the underlying science is still real. Whenever you hear the phrase, “it’s just a theory,” it should trigger alarm bells in […]
A unique exoplanet without clouds or haze was found by astrophysicists from Harvard and Smithsonian.
Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?
Even after our merger with Andromeda, we might retain our spiral shape for trillions of years. You probably don’t think about it very often, but the Milky Way galaxy won’t remain […]
Betelgeuse, the tenth brightest star in the night sky, mysteriously dimmed last year. Now researchers know why.
And what can it teach us about our Solar System’s earliest days? In many ways, astronomy is unique among the sciences. In every other field, you have the ability to design […]
Have any of the stars we can see burned themselves out completely? When we look out across the Universe, we’re also peering back in time. In the early 21st-century, we’ve […]
Scientists with the the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys spent six years creating a detailed map of more than 1 billion galaxies.
Eight-eyed arachnids can tell when an object’s movement is not quite right.
From succubi to aliens, stories of abductions or other unsettling encounters have been with us for millennia. What explains them?
A revolution of the mind must occur in order for humanity to succeed on a finite planet.