Plus, how the mycelium network’s destruction could, physically, actually end life in the Universe. Imagine taking a seemingly impossible journey: traveling to another Universe on a network of biological spores […]
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We always assume that dark matter is particle-based, and we just need to find which particle it is. But what if it isn’t so? Everything we’ve ever detected in the Universe, […]
While it’s reasonable to trust that science will eventually answer our unsolved questions, assuming that it has all of the answers right now is not.
Neurons in the human brain produce photons, and are apparently capable of being the infrastructure for light-based communication and activity.
Stephen Hawking had pinned his hopes on ‘M-theory’ to fully explain the universe – here’s what it is
During the second string revolution, in 1995, physicists proposed that the five consistent string theories are actually only different faces of a unique theory.
After a 16 year wait, the star SO-2 will speed past our galaxy’s supermassive black hole at 2.5% the speed of light. It will be the first-of-its-kind test of Einstein’s […]
One prominent mathematician asks: was Einstein such a smartypants after all?
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Google is closing in on achieving a major quantum computing milestone.
With quantum teleportation now occurring from Earth to satellites, how long is it before we can teleport a human being? “There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.” –LeVar […]
A groundbreaking experiment proves a key tenet of Einstein’s theory of gravity.
Onboard Elon Musks’s Tesla Roadster were hidden the first books of of a library in space.
Chinese scientists accomplish the feat of teleporting a photon to a satellite hundreds of miles above Earth.
How much free will do you actually have? This week’s Comment of the Week is fantastic and raises an interesting debate. What do you think?
One of inflation’s cofounders has turned his back on the idea. But practically no one else is following him. Is he right? This article was written by Sabine Hossenfelder. Sabine is […]
Is it ever okay to believe in things we consider to be impossible or extremely improbable?
The idea may have started as a joke, but it’s getting more and more serious.
The idea is just as ‘crazy’ as Einstein telling us that time slows down at high speeds, or Darwin saying that our ancestors were apes.
Dark energy is pushing distant galaxies apart from one another at an increasing rate. If the Big Rip hypothesis is true, things will only get worse from here. One of the […]
There’s no such thing as a theory that’s too beautiful to be wrong, if it doesn’t agree with experiment. The history of physics is filled with great ideas that you’ve […]
A new study challenges what we understand about the workings of time.
Aiming for the nearest star would necessitate a whole slew of advances. Even if the mission fails, humanity wins by investing in itself. There have been some magnificent moments in NASA […]
Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
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The accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the greatest puzzles today. Could this out-of-the-box idea explain it without dark energy? When it comes to our quest to understand the […]
In 1936, a school girl named Phyllis wrote a letter to Albert Einstein to ask whether a person could believe in both science and religion. He was quick to reply.
It’s more than the Spore Drive, it’s about the heart of science fiction. If you’ve been following Star Trek: Discovery, you knew what we were headed for going into the mid-season […]
In this radical view, the universe is a giant supercomputer processing particles as bits.
Shanghai scientist Ruxin Li has already built the world’s most powerful lasers, and he plans a new one that can rip matter from empty space.
How the gravitational Casimir effect might cause our Universe’s accelerated expansion, without any new physics at all. “For although it is certainly true that quantitative measurements are of great importance, it […]
Why does America confuse fantasy for reality, in pop culture and in politics? Kurt Andersen can pinpoint the moment it happened.
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Wow. Reading Hawking’s Ph.D. paper is like listening to Pink Floyd for decades and then suddenly finding out they had a different and even more groundbreaking debut album.