The laws of physics obey certain symmetries and defy others. It’s theoretically tempting to add new ones, but reality doesn’t agree.
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On the largest scales, galaxies don’t simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don’t remain bound together.
65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?
Russia’s cyberattacks against Ukraine have been prolific and ongoing for several years. The future of war may begin in cyberspace.
Cartography is serious business in Switzerland — but once in a while, the occasional map gag slips through.
The Rijksmuseum employed an AI to repaint lost parts of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch.” Here’s how they did it.
‘Dorozoku’ map crowd-sources the whereabouts of noisy kids in Japan – but who’s being anti-social here, exactly?
The Russian writer’s scorn went beyond a difference in taste; Leo Tolstoy virulently hated everything Shakespeare had come to stand for.
The singer-songwriter distilled the essence of the holidays into a hit song, and for her efforts she was crowned the Queen of Christmas.
American and French troops turned capturing Hitler’s chalet into a game.
The Black Death wasn’t the only plague in the 1300s.
If you want to understand what the Universe is, how it began, evolved, and will eventually end, astrophysics is the only way to go.
Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian were awarded the highest honor in medicine for their research into how human bodies make sense of and respond to the outside world.
With a new telescope on the horizon, we reflect on the best pictures of space that came before.
The following is an excerpt from Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw. Reprinted with Permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2021. Koch’s Postulates, Anthrax, […]
One god stands for order, logic, and reason. The other stands for chaos, madness, and drunkenness. Nietzsche thinks you need both.
Bolsheviks planned to erect a towering monument to the socialist cause, but their quixotic ideas never got off the ground.
A NASA-sponsored competition asks participants to improve the design of a bucket drum for moon excavation.
Hubble showed us what our modern day Universe looks like. JWST’s big goal was to teach us how the Universe grew up. Here’s where we are now.
We give it the flight plan, and it takes care of the rest. It has to. Here’s why. No matter how advanced our technology becomes, there are certain limits that can […]
The number of people with whom we interact is highest around 40, but then things change substantially after that.
The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.
“Think defensively about how you can protect yourself from an almost inevitable attack, rather than assuming you’ll avoid harm.”
Millions of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine could be distributed as early as this week.
Two-thirds of our days are spent alone. The Metaverse will bring us together, argues leading Metaverse thinker Matthew Ball.
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It’s how successful our current theories are. Some 500 years ago, there was one scientific phenomenon that was, without controversy, extremely well-understood: the motion of the celestial objects in the sky. […]
The future of cities on the Moon, Mars and orbital habitats.
Unlike the first Roaring Twenties, these won’t end with a Great Depression.