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The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.
John Templeton Foundation
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
JWST has brought us more distant views of the early Universe than ever before. Is the Big Bang, and all of modern cosmology, in trouble?
Cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.
The curiosity of children is a national resource. Adults destroy it.
Without modularization, many epic projects simply would be impossible.
If you look into a mirror, you'll notice that left-and-right are reversed, but up-and-down is preserved. The reason isn't what you think.
What would become the Big Bang model started from a crucial idea: that the young Universe was denser and hotter.
Is Eliezer Yudkowsky the same false prophet that Paul Ehrlich was?
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
Like Mars today, Venus used to be a sci-fi superstar. Recent discoveries could re-ignite our interest in Earth’s “evil twin.”
A recent study is the first to fabricate electronic components from endogenous molecules.
With infrared capabilities and image sharpness far beyond Hubble's limits, JWST looked at Hubble's deepest field, revealing so much more.
You are an energy field — but not the “chakras” or “auras” kind.
The content of our long-term memories is constantly "reconstructed" by our brains. The same is true of memories formed mere seconds ago.
An un-crewed sailing drone discovered the unusually shaped, slumbering seamount.
Our brainwaves naturally synchronize with external stimuli like flickering lights. Here's how the phenomenon might boost learning.
Though he renounced philosophy, Stephen Hawking's final theory of the universe redraws the basic foundations of cosmology.
The Universe is grand, awe-inspiring, and greater than we likely imagine. Even astrophysicists get anxious thinking about it, but we cope.
It may be time for a cosmological paradigm shift.
The double-slit experiment, hundreds of years after it was first performed, still holds the key mystery at the heart of quantum physics.
For many years, some cosmologists embraced the idea of an eternal, steady state universe. But science triumphed over philosophical prejudice.
There are several different types of learner engagement, from emotional to cognitive. Here's how to improve each.
When it comes to spotting a lie, less is more.
With a massive, charged nucleus orbited by tiny electrons, atoms are such simple objects. Miraculously, they make up everything we know.
Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what's real. That's not what he said.
The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant's pain.
Mongol forces never fully conquered the continent, but they played a key role in its historical development.