Stronger than the LHC and faster than anything except light, the world’s cleverest particle detector sees the particles we could never create on Earth. It might be true that there’s an […]
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Superpowerful lasers for next-generation technologies are closer to existence.
If you think nothing can move faster than light, check out this clever way to defeat that limit. Nothing can move faster than the speed of light. When Einstein set forth […]
Harvard engineers make a breakthrough polarization camera.
Many people, including some scientists, fear that the coming 5G WiFi revolution will harm humans. Here’s why that’s unfounded. Over the coming few years, a new set of infrastructure will […]
Radical thinker Rutger Bregman paints a new, more beautiful portrait of humanity.
It’s been called the biggest conundrum in all of cosmology, and recent measurements just add to the confusion. One of the most puzzling facts about the Universe is that different […]
Light exists outside of time.
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It’s one thing to find a galaxy that “shouldn’t exist.” It’s quite another to learn why it does. Above a certain size, spiral galaxies shouldn’t exist. A single major merger — where two […]
Researchers develop a novel method to measure gravity that can get much more information.
The encyclopedia offers more “reliable” information than Wikipedia, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Researchers find what causes the glow coming from the densest objects in our universe.
Pfizer’s vaccine needs to be kept at -100°F until it’s administered. Can caregivers deliver?
Groundbreaking neurological research on songbirds provides insight on human learned behavior and speech.
Research supports wearing surgical face masks to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
The meteorites suggest astronomers may have small, early planets wrong.
What makes some psychopaths better able to control their antisocial tendencies?
The politicalization of mask-wearing doesn’t help stop the spread of infections.
The darkness of the night sky was a mystery for generations of humans. Here’s the reason why. From our perspective here in the Solar System, it makes absolute intuitive sense why […]
Strange bone circles made from mammoths revealed clues about how ancient communities survived Europe’s last ice age.
New research proposes possible origins of the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua.
A new survey found that 27 percent of millennials are saving more money due to the pandemic, but most can’t stay within their budgets.
Leap years will only get us through the next few thousand years before we have to fix it. With every year that passes, we assume that two separate things will both […]
The heart of the religious ritual is mysticism, argues Brian Muraresku in “The Immortality Key.”
The pandemic reminds us that our higher education system, with all its flaws, remains a key part of our strategic reserve.
There’s so much we don’t know about fast radio bursts and galactic halos. Combined, we get a unique window on the Universe. Deep in space, mysterious signals known as Fast […]
An elegant, 400-year-old means of navigating the stars takes flight.
Experts plead with Americans to keep gatherings limited this Thanksgiving, while families devise new ways to celebrate the holidays.
Scientists say it might even rain on the exoplanet, dubbed K2-18b.
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