The Standard Model and General Relativity can’t be all there is. But how will we discover what lies beyond them? One of the biggest problems with physics is that, apart from […]
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This exoplanet is 10 times hotter than any world we measured and shaped like a football.
Can you make solar power work when the sun goes down? You can, and Dubai is about to run a city that way.
The origin story for our Universe got a major revision nearly 40 years ago. Time to catch up. 13.8 billion years ago, all the matter and energy contained within our Universe […]
With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the Standard Model is now complete. Can we be sure there isn’t another generation of particles out there? The Universe, at a fundamental level, […]
A new paper suggests a primordial black hole may be making things weird at the edge of our solar system.
Gravity gets weaker as the distance squared. But gravitational waves only get weaker as the distance. Why? One of the things we often just accept about the world is that […]
Healing from a break-up should be taken as seriously as healing from a broken arm, says psychiatrist Dr. Guy Winch.
Our social emotions are now being hijacked by robots.
The solar farm is expected to save the airport millions over the following decades.
It can supposedly cool you down by 23 degrees Fahrenheit.
An astrobiologist joins a like-minded global community in ramping up the search.
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An immune molecule sometimes produced during infection can influence the social behavior of mice.
You’d be amazed at what you can learn from even one single pixel. Over the past decade, owing largely to NASA’s Kepler mission, our knowledge of planets around star systems beyond […]
‘Millennial’ doesn’t hold nearly as much meaning as Americans pretend it does. Here’s why.
And what do we still have left to learn? The original idea of a black hole goes all the way back to 1783, when Cambridge scientist John Michell recognized that a […]
The Internet Research Agency has learned that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
Different methods of measuring the expansion rate give different values. This one linchpin is key. In science, different methods of measuring the same properties should yield the same results. The expanding […]
For billions of years, dark energy couldn’t have been detected. Now, it’s everywhere we look. When we look out at the ultra-distant Universe, billion of light-years away, we’re seeing it as […]
The concept was likened to a porch light in our little neighborhood of the galaxy.
We’ve never seen an image of a black hole’s event horizon before. Here’s what we’re expecting, based on what we already know. For hundreds of years, physicists have hypothesized that the […]
A gift guide of the hottest educational toys for your budding scientist, engineer, or mathematician.
In his book, Earth Emotions, Glenn Albrecht coins “psychoterratic.”
When these particles are eaten by earthworms, the results are not good.
LIGO and Virgo have now detected a total of 11 binary merger events. But exactly 0 were in the Milky Way. Here’s why. One of the most spectacular recent advances in […]
Helium and carbon are made copiously in the interiors of stars. But the in-between elements? They’re rarities everywhere. If you were to take every element in the periodic table and […]
She may not be ours forever.
Maybe you’ve heard the term “self-actualization” bandied about at a party or by an inspirational speaker? Popularized by psychologist Abraham Maslow, the theory argues that we can realize our full […]
Sleep deprivation leads to a shutdown in the production of essential proteins.