Just because you have “star” in your name doesn’t mean you are one. When we think about the objects in our Universe, they fall into two categories: self-luminous objects, like stars, […]
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Implicit bias may be outside your conscious control, but that doesn’t mean change is.
Researchers devise a record-breaking laser transmission that avoids atmospheric interference.
Why saying, “I don’t know,” might be the best thing you can do.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already changed the world. AI algorithms have been incorporated into everyday applications—such as social media, web mapping, facial recognition, and virtual home assistants—to make them more […]
How quickly is it expanding today, and how does that expansion rate change over time? What is the Universe made of? How quickly is it expanding today, and how does that […]
Objective reality exists, but what can you know about it that isn’t subjective. According to some neuroscientists, not much.
A study uses sugar water experiments to show that hummingbirds can see colors invisible to us.
Researchers create a device to test a 50-year-old physics theory from the famed Roger Penrose.
The Rijksmuseum employed an AI to repaint lost parts of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch.” Here’s how they did it.
In 1933, the skull of a 50-year-old male of the Homo longi species was found in China, puzzling researchers.
Even with six months’ notice, we can’t stop an incoming asteroid.
The Big Theoretical Physics Problem At The Center Of The ‘Muon g-2’ Puzzle In early April, 2021, the experimental physics community announced an enormous victory: they had measured the muon’s magnetic […]
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Despite the claims of one of Earth’s newest Nobel Laureates, the data doesn’t lie. One of the greatest scientific successes of the past century was the theory of the hot Big […]
The past ~4 billion years have been an incredibly successful, unbroken run for life on Earth. The future won’t be nearly so bright.
This mystery comes in two varieties: repeating and non-repeating. Here’s what we know so far. Imagine that you were looking out at the distant Universe, watching the stars, galaxies, and the […]
The Field Medal was created to elevate promising mathematicians from underrepresented demographics. But has it followed through on that goal?
Want some crazy space phenomena? You don’t have to leave the neighborhood for it.
Solving the supply chain crisis before the global economy tanks is going to require many creative approaches. Flexport’s Ryan Petersen has one that just might work.
Neptune holds records in our Solar System, but the Universe gets even faster. Here on Earth, extreme weather events can cause dramatic wind speed spikes. When hurricanes are at their most […]
We have pipelines for oil and natural gas. Why not water?
How one startup plans to use “death rays” for good instead of evil.
Is that required for detectors like LIGO and Virgo to work? Whenever any two things in the Universe interact at the same location in spacetime, one thing always remains true about […]
We just found the first one within 1,000 light-years of us. But there’s probably one much, much closer. For a long time, black holes were known to exist only in the […]
If there’s no phosphine, there’s no indirect evidence for biological activity there. In one of the biggest surprises in the history of planetary science, a September 2020 study announced the presence […]
The rock, found in the Sahara, likely comes from a long-lost baby protoplanet.
A new study calls the technique “location spoofing.”
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