The Virtual Metaverse will be for gaming and other short duration uses, while the Augmented Metaverse will revolutionize society.
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Has all this happened before, and will all this happen once again? There are only a few questions, when we ask them, that force us to reckon with the fundamental nature […]
GPS holds the key, but astronomers can’t do it without help. Since 2019, the night sky — as seen by both human eyes and the telescopes we use to enhance our views of […]
The Roman Space Telescope will study the expansion of the universe and search for distant planets.
It can sometimes feel like career progress is beyond your control. This can be especially acute if you are a young professional or entering a new industry. You’re too inexperienced, […]
Based on the atoms that they’re made out of, the innermost planet should always be the densest. Here’s why Earth beats Mercury, hands down.
Without a little help from Einstein, we couldn’t have made this discovery. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, still churns out novel discoveries. The Hubble eXtreme Deep […]
Here’s how the closest place to “hell” in our Solar System might actually be home to life. From afar, Venus seems like the most uninhabitable planet of all. NASA’s Magellan mission […]
The inevitable long, slow decline is accelerating, and there’s nothing we can do. The Universe, as it is today, is less active, is forming fewer stars, and is creating fewer chances […]
The 57-year-old is teaming up with NASA and SpaceX for the film project, which is to be set aboard the International Space Station.
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 […]
“Should they strike, each of them has an energy at impact equal to all of the nuclear weapons on Earth combined.”
From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton’s second law.
Unless you plan to try again in 6,800 years, this week is your shot.
It’s not for climate science and condensed matter physics. It’s for advancing our understanding beyond spherical cows.
We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?
There could have been life on Mars in the past, but that’s only the beginning of the story. For as long as humanity has been watching the skies, we’ve been fascinated […]
The drive would provide enough thrust for a spacecraft to travel near the speed of light using only electricity, says physicist Jim Woodward.
Why do we deprive students of the historical and cultural context of science?
Over the coming decades, over 100,000 new satellites are expected. For countless millennia, whenever we were faced with a clear, cloudless, moonless night, all of humanity was able to witness […]
The Metaverse could be the most dangerous tool of persuasion humanity has ever created.
After more than two decades of precision measurements, we’ve now reached the “gold standard” for how the pieces don’t fit.
William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.
A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.
The latest gravitational wave data from LIGO and Virgo finally shows us the truth: there are no “gaps” in the masses of black holes.
It’s that the Universe can be understood at all. Don’t deafen yourself to its lessons. In a nutshell, 2020 has been a unique year in human history. For the first time […]
The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you’re doing and watch the original.
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
A study finds 1.8 billion trees and shrubs in the Sahara desert.