Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.
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Let’s celebrate the progress, but put the cork back in the champagne bottle.
In a joint briefing at the 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, NASA and NOAA revealed 2020’s scorching climate data.
A unique star system where exoplanets orbit their star backwards located by researchers.
If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.
Filaments, hundreds of millions of light-years long, were just caught spinning. In our own cosmic backyard, everything we see spins, rotates, and revolves in some fashion or other. Our planet […]
Atomic clocks keep time accurately to within 1 second every 33 billion years. Nuclear clocks could blow them all away.
Even the most brilliant mind in history couldn’t have achieved all he did without significant help from the minds of others.
Chemical energy, where electrons transition in atoms, powers the reactions we see. But two other types hold more promise than all the rest.
Infrared, visible, and ultraviolet combine to show us Jupiter’s features as never before. The largest planet in our Solar System, Jupiter, is our own ‘failed star.’ The best evidence-based classification scheme […]
If everything eventually dies and decays, is there a way to prolong the inevitable? Our Universe, as it exists today, puts us in an incredibly privileged position. Had we come […]
Our Universe requires dark matter in order to make sense of things, astrophysically. Could massive photons do the trick?
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
The brightest object in the night sky, our Moon is an unmistakable sight. The brightest object in the night sky, our Moon is an unmistakable sight. The Moon, in a […]
Scientists are solving the problem of costly energy storage.
Researchers in Singapore invented a novel device that may help the island nation illuminate its growing underground infrastructure.
From the right place at the right time, it’s a sight unlike any you’ll find on Earth. In our Solar System, any planet with moons has a chance for a solar […]
The latest gravitational wave data from LIGO and Virgo finally shows us the truth: there are no “gaps” in the masses of black holes.
Debris from Pluto-sized collisions, not aliens, are streaming through the galaxy. In 2017, scientists discovered an object passing through our Solar System that was unlike anything else we had ever seen. […]
It’s the largest black hole merger ever observed by scientists.
Think there are habitable super-Earths out there? Think again. Here in our Solar System, we have two very distinct types of planets: small, terrestrial, rocky worlds, with thin (or no) atmospheres […]
There’s a lot to get rid of if we want to get only our Universe out of String Theory. A lot of people, when they learn about String Theory for the […]
Every power source involves trade-offs. Given the challenges of increasing demand and climate change, what is the future of energy?
Science doesn’t exist in a cultural and existential vacuum and its teaching shouldn’t either.
Mathematically, it is a monster, but we can understand it in plain English.
On other planets, blue skies and red sunsets aren’t the norm.
From corrupt czars to bloodthirsty Bolsheviks, Russia has had no shortage of bad leaders. But just how evil were they really?
Named M51-ULS-1b, it’s certainly a curious astronomical event. But the evidence is far too weak to conclude “planet.”
Apart from divine authority, is there an ethical basis for right and wrong?
Researchers document the first example of evolutionary changes in a plant in response to humans.