As the Universe ages, will it eventually fade away entirely? The earliest signal we’ve ever directly detected from the Universe comes to us from shortly after the Big Bang: when […]
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The first personality tests revolved around assessing people’s reactions to ambiguous and often unsettling images. Today, the gold standard is a barrage of questions.
If everything eventually dies and decays, is there a way to prolong the inevitable? Our Universe, as it exists today, puts us in an incredibly privileged position. Had we come […]
Without a little help from Einstein, we couldn’t have made this discovery. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, still churns out novel discoveries. The Hubble eXtreme Deep […]
It could have had any curvature at all. So why is it flat? What is the shape of the Universe? If you had come along before the 1800s, it likely never […]
Some U.S. intelligence operatives have suggested foreign adversaries may be using “directed-energy” weapons against Americans.
Researchers hypothesize that these exoplanets could support the development of alien life.
America’s war in Southeast Asia is fading fast from memory. These maps offer a horrific reminder.
Some wild animals thrive near humans, but only up to a point.
What most people don’t realize is that everyone’s imagery is different.
A new AI-generated map of dark matter shows previously undiscovered filamentary structures connecting galaxies.
No. No no no. Just… no. The JWST has truly blown our scientific minds, but it’s a pure crackpot idea that the Big Bang is now disproven.
Let’s celebrate the progress, but put the cork back in the champagne bottle.
The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
Searching for happiness in the midst of personal or societal crises are nothing new.
The decades-long conflict is best understood not through secondhand accounts of historians, but the primary accounts of people who actually experienced it.
Magnetic monopoles began as a mere theoretical curiosity. They might hold the key to understanding so much more.
Based on the atoms that they’re made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here’s why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
Even the ones hunting for aliens aren’t excited. Here’s the reason why. In this world, there are very few issues more polarizing than the notion of aliens. For as long as […]
The mummy was first thought to be a male priest. But a recent radiological analysis revealed a surprising anomaly.
By taking Satan out of the religious context, storytellers explored the nature of sin in new ways.
Time always moves in the same direction, but what if the Universe were contracting? As we step forward in time, a number of things always seem to happen together. Objects […]
Research finds that our sense of self can be manipulated by certain smells and sounds.
Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we’re uncovering our own history.
Can we stop mass shootings? The first step is collecting data, and these authors have done just that.
Stockholm Syndrome is the most famous of 10 psychological disorders named after world cities. Most relate to tourism or hostage-taking.
How long should one wait until an idea like string theory, seductive as it may be, is deemed unrealistic?
The size of rabbits and hares has long been evolutionarily constrained by competitors roughly their size.
When three wise men gifted baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh, they had no idea one was made from colliding neutron stars.