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The successor to Hubble is almost ready for launch. It’s really coming this year, too! NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, originally proposed in the 1990s, is finally slated to launch later […]
Bolsheviks planned to erect a towering monument to the socialist cause, but their quixotic ideas never got off the ground.
If dark matter exists in a large halo in our galaxy, made up of particles, then it’s passing through us constantly. But how much?
It’s a wild idea, but there’s a way to test it. No matter how far we look out in the Universe, there’s always more “Universe” to see. Even at the extreme […]
Since the time of Galileo, Saturn’s rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.
Life arose on Earth very early on. After a few billion years, here we are: intelligent and technologically advanced. Where’s everyone else?
Information economics suggests that “no news” means somebody is hiding something. But people are bad at noticing that.
Some neurology experiments — such as growing miniature human brains and reanimating the brains of dead pigs — are getting weird. It’s time to discuss ethics.
A new study from NASA and the SETI Institute comes up with an exciting number of potentially life-supporting planets.
Even addition has to play by different rules for black holes. How do you add 28 and 47 together? This simple math question helps us highlight the many different ways that […]
From galaxies with no dark matter to ones with hundreds of times more dark matter than normal, our Universe needs it more than ever. One of the most mysterious substances in […]
“Immodest Acts” tells the story of Benedetta Carlini, a lesbian nun who claimed to be a mystic visionary but failed to convince the leaders of her faith.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss Enlightenment philosopher who praised a simple life and inspired the worst of the French Revolution.
Scientists find an exoplanet whose strange behavior may lead to the Solar’s System hidden ninth planet.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?
The controversy over the universe’s expansion rate continues with a new, faster estimate.
On other planets, blue skies and red sunsets aren’t the norm.
There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.
As we gain new knowledge, our scientific picture of how the Universe works must evolve. This is a feature of the Big Bang, not a bug.
Cross-disciplinary cooperation is needed to save civilization.
In reality, it has no color at all. Here’s why. Every time you see an illustration of the COVID-19 coronavirus, it’s shown with a red color to it. Sometimes it’s red […]
How our brains interpret computer code could impact how we teach it.
Learn how to get the best views no matter where you are. Every year, no matter what else is occurring on Earth or in the heavens, you can rely on two […]
If you traveled in a straight line for far enough, would you come back to where you started? If you were to set out on a journey from anywhere on Earth’s […]
A new model of plate tectonics offers a chance to look back a billion years with new found accuracy.
During World War II, Nazi engineers allegedly tried to create UFO-shaped military aircraft.
By leveraging the difference between lit and shadowed areas, a new energy source perfect for wearables is invented.
One man studied apes for 50 years. He says nature isn’t as cruel as you think.