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No matter how long you wait, the matter that makes you probably won’t end up inside a black hole. It’s one of the most pervasive ideas out there: if you wait […]
These ten ghostly astronomical sights house some deep-and-frightening scientific truths within them. With a huge suite of different observatories for viewing the Universe, innumerable details can be revealed. This ‘Godzilla’ asterism […]
With a new data run coming in 2019 at unprecedented sensitivity, we might finally get our answers. Over the past three years, LIGO discovered ten independent instances of merging black holes […]
The Universe has been making stars for nearly the entire 13.8 billion years of its history. Here’s what we know. It’s been 13.8 billion years since the hot Big Bang, and […]
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NASA JPL takes a first step toward a GPS for space.
A fascinating mathematical structure exists that goes well beyond our common experience. Could it revolutionize physics? Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Universe is that every particle within it — at […]
A new method promises to capture an elusive dark world particle.
The ‘People Map of the United States’ zooms in on America’s obsession with celebrity
Sure, Epicureans focused on seeking pleasure – but they also did so much more.
Spending between 120–300 minutes per week in nature shown to increase wellbeing.
By 2022, there may be as many as three artificial moons floating above the city of Chengdu.
It’s safe to say not everyone was immediately impressed.
Celebrity scientists like Donna Strickland are showing that science & faith co-exist just fine.
Disney, one of world’s largest entertainment companies, doubles down on its environmental plan.
The new design could help the robot explore disaster zones and other dangerous environments.
The latest phones have more than one million (1,048,576 to be exact) times more memory than the Apollo computer had in RAM.
Einstein’s explanation is the only one that works. When Newton first proposed the law of universal gravitation, it marked the very first time that we realized the same rule governing how […]
Bernie speaks again about what democratic socialism means, and raises a debate about what freedom is.
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Our Universe is full of surprises. This latest one, AT2018cow, has ignited a controversy between astronomers. The Universe is an ever-changing place, particularly if you look at it on long-enough […]
If the Sun is 93 million miles away, why does sunlight filtering through the clouds or the trees spread out? Rays of sunshine are one of those natural sights that leave […]
Why do all of our virtual assistants have a female voice?
If all you see is low-energy light in a myriad of directions, you can’t be sure. But this light comes from the Big Bang. There are a lot of things that […]
It’s possible that the Higgs boson is connected to a bizarre doomsday scenario for the universe.
Just when you thought the student loan crisis couldn’t get any worse.
It’s either a cosmic mystery or a terribly mundane mistake. The Universe is expanding, and every scientist in the field agrees with that. The observations overwhelmingly support that straightforward conclusion, and […]
The Earth is getting warmer, and humans are the cause. This is why. Let’s play pretend for a moment. Pretend, if you can, that you’ve never heard about the idea of […]
Sobering accounts from one of the most pivotal battles in world history.