When we started imaging the Universe with Hubble, every star had four “spikes” coming from it. Here’s why Webb will have more.
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This short story is a fictional account of two very real people — Anaximander and Anaximenes, two ancient Greeks who tried to make sense of the universe.
When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas.
With its very first deep-field view of the Universe now released, the James Webb Space Telescope has shown us our cosmos as never before.
Released in 1972, “Ways of Seeing” has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.
Pando, which is Latin for “I spread,” is a single organism spanning some 106 acres.
Mental health, healing and pulling together were key themes of 2021, according to the world’s most popular search engine. Google processes billions of requests every day and its Year in Search […]
It’s that time of year when the hours of meticulous wrapping of Christmas toys are viciously undone in seconds by tiny children.
While we can see many solar storms coming, some are “stealthy.” A new study shows how to detect them.
The Hubble Space Telescope, 32 years after its launch, broke the all-time record for most distant star. It won’t do better.
With the right management training program, organizations can empower leaders with the skills they need to succeed — giving everyone on the team a leg up.
The brain appears to remember immune responses, and memories can trigger them to happen again. This might explain some psychosomatic illnesses.
Evolution proves to be just about as ingenious as Nikola Tesla
Sometimes, moral lessons can be learned from blowing away zombies.
But the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope compels us to add, “so far.” Beginning with its 1990 launch, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized our conception of the Universe. This photo of […]
Anastasia lives alone in perfect harmony with nature – or so the story goes – and nature serves her devotedly.
From the Notre Dame to Buddhist statues, dozens of irreplaceable artifacts are destroyed every year by both man and nature.
Our views from the red planet’s surface are more spectacular than ever. Ever since the earliest spaceflight, humanity has reached for Mars. This photo composite shows Meande Ring, a river on […]
Paradoxically, we lose wars because the world is peaceful and the U.S. is powerful.
The quadratic formula isn’t just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.
“Immodest Acts” tells the story of Benedetta Carlini, a lesbian nun who claimed to be a mystic visionary but failed to convince the leaders of her faith.
Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?
Coherentism accepts that circular reasoning is probably the best any of us can do.
China has reached a new record for nuclear fusion at 120 million degrees Celsius.
A new AI-generated map of dark matter shows previously undiscovered filamentary structures connecting galaxies.
Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky. A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual.
Adult learning theory is a guidepost for designing training for maximum engagement.
How two seemingly distinct exoplanet systems turned out to be related. Practically every star in the Milky Way has a similar origin story. At some point in the past, a molecular […]
Organ transplantation is in dire need of biotechnological advances. 3D bioprinting and genetic modification of pigs provide a path forward.
Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove humans colonized the continent much earlier than previously thought.