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Entropy always increases, but that doesn’t mean it was zero to start with. One of the most inviolable laws in the Universe is the second law of thermodynamics: that in any […]
Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
Many contemporary composers live in the shadow of Bach and Beethoven, even though they’re just as interesting to listen to.
Quantum mechanics + consciousness: There is nothing better than mixing two great mysteries to produce an even bigger one.
A new study discovers how blazars shoot out jets of radiation towards Earth.
These bizarre mollusks have the ability to regenerate their bodies and to absorb other organisms’ attributes.
Everything is being driven apart. But there’s hope of reaching what’s currently so far away. For the first 7.8 billion years, the Universe unfolded exactly as scientists would have expected in […]
Terrified of blushing? You might have erythrophobia.
Laughing gas may be far more effective for some than antidepressants.
English is a dynamic language, and this summer’s new additions to dictionary.com tell us a lot about how we’re living.
Using a laboratory model, scientists get a nice Jovian surprise.
One single plot of data embodies the most profound thing we know about the stars.
It happened 13.8 billion years ago, so why hasn’t the radiation all passed over us by now? For the past 13.8 billion years, our Universe has been expanding, cooling, and gravitating. […]
For every good idea in evolution, there is an unintended consequence. Disease is often one of them.
The Universe is dark, but the distorted light reveals its presence. When we look at the objects in the Universe, the mass just doesn’t add up. A galaxy that was […]
Many of the furniture giant’s products are named after Swedish locations. Not everyone is happy about that.
Maybe eyes really are windows into the soul — or at least into the brain, as a new study finds.
The light we observe isn’t the same as the light that gets emitted. Here’s what causes it. The light you see, when you look out at the stars and galaxies that […]
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.
The night sky is already noticeably different, and bigger changes are ahead. For all of human history until the launch of Sputnik, the only objects in the night sky were naturally […]
Socrates lived during a time when people did not strive to separate fact from fiction. So how much of what we know about Socrates is true?
A unique star system where exoplanets orbit their star backwards located by researchers.
The prize went to three researchers who revolutionized the social sciences by taking advantage of natural experiments.
When people pick the greatest scientist of all-time, Newton and Einstein always come up. Perhaps they should name Johannes Kepler, instead.
The scientists, not the fossil fuel industry, were right all along. Back in 1990, the world’s top climate scientists convened to put together a report on the state of Earth’s climate. […]
A Harvard professor’s study discovers the worst year to be alive.
There’s a boundary to how far back we can observe everything that exists. Despite everything we’ve learned about our Universe, there are many existential questions that remain unanswered. We don’t know […]
It’s that the Universe can be understood at all. Don’t deafen yourself to its lessons. In a nutshell, 2020 has been a unique year in human history. For the first time […]