It’s made up of scores of telescopes at many different sites across the world. But it acts like one giant telescope. Here’s how. If you want to observe the Universe more […]
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New research based on observational data from the Spitzer telescope provides clues as to how the universe first emerged from its dark age.
One in five people have ended sex because of bad bedroom talk. Here’s the data and science on how to do it right.
Europe’s border closures due to coronavirus go against a fundamental freedom enshrined in the Schengen Agreement.
Scientists actively researching this have known the answer for quite some time. It’s time for everyone to catch up. The Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, and is generally regarded […]
Just before I turned 60, I discovered that sharing my story by drawing could be an effective way to both alleviate my symptoms and combat that stigma.
Imagine how different our understanding of the Universe would be if we saw nothing beyond the Milky Way. Our corner of the Universe was gifted with a plethora of bright, nearby […]
Superposition, entanglement, qubits, and Google’s big announcement.
If you think ‘particles are matter’ and ‘antiparticles are antimatter,’ think again. In this Universe, there are certain rules that have never been observed to be broken. Some of these […]
A few traditions in the Roman Catholic Church can be traced back to pagan cults, rites, and deities.
A tiny grain found within a meteorite in Antarctica sheds light on how the solar system itself came to be.
When searching for extraterrestrial life, astronomers may want to look at planets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres.
One of the scientists with the Viking missions says yes.
A song many consider the black national anthem rises again in the United States.
It’s much more complex a question than dividing its mass by the volume of the event horizon. If you want to get a meaningful answer, you have to go deep. If […]
From literature to physics, the annual Nobel Prizes aim to highlight the most groundbreaking achievements in every field.
Thought expriments are great tools, but do they always do what we want them to?
Insomnia is the product of mental or emotional pressure.
Well-lit cities and towns are essential to public safety. That doesn’t have to ruin the night sky. For most of us here on planet Earth, navigating the world at night is […]
A vacuum cleaner is the wrong picture. Time to bust that myth. There are no classes of object in our Universe more extreme than black holes. With so much mass present […]
A mysterious startup reveals a groundbreaking solar energy achievement.
When the Universe expands, photons redshift to longer wavelengths and lower energies. So where does that energy go? Imagine the ultimate version of a toy Universe: it’s expanding, it’s full of […]
The Hollywood blockbuster may have been right, if only 3.2 billion years off the mark.
From travel restrictions to forced isolation, the new coronavirus brings psychological threats, too.
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
People who score high in “dark triad” personality traits are able to empathize. They’d just rather not.
The transition across a quantum barrier is known as quantum tunneling, and the amount of time it takes for such a transition to occur had never been measured before. For […]
The world’s greatest observatory can go no further with its current instrument set. The Hubble Space Telescope has provided humanity with our deepest views of the Universe ever. It has […]
Or, quite possibly, is it more complex than either one of those scenarios? If there’s one lesson that humanity should have learned from the 20th century, it’s this: the Universe […]