Such massive, early supermassive black holes have puzzled astronomers for decades. At last, we've finally figured out how they form.
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Even if you aren't in the path of totality, you can still use the solar eclipse to measure how long it takes the Moon to orbit Earth.
With so many early galaxies of unexpectedly large brightnesses, JWST surprised us all. Here's how scientists made sense of what we see.
By looking down, scientists are looking back in time.
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
Video games matter. Their continued technological and artistic development is reshaping the way we satisfy our ancient need to tell stories.
College students once stood out from the pack on IQ tests. Today, they're about average.
Research suggests you can influence your sense of time by changing the “embodiedness” of your daily habits.
Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity isn't instant.
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It temporarily puts the immune system on high alert to prevent MRSA, pneumonia, and other infections in the hospital.
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There might be a hard limit to our knowledge of the Universe.
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here's how.
The first elements in the Universe formed just minutes after the Big Bang, but it took hundreds of thousands of years before atoms formed.
The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.
Environmental progress is happening quickly but we must keep pushing for change.
How to make money in business, with $100-million Salesforce pioneer Aaron Ross.
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The first stars took tens or even hundreds of millions of years to form, and then died in the cosmic blink of an eye. Here's how.
Because of dark energy, distant objects speed away from us faster and faster as time goes on. How long before every galaxy is out of reach?
Scientific evidence does not support the use of trigger warnings, which are described as a "disingenuous gesture of trauma awareness."
A woman’s name would undermine the credibility of the mission. Names of former Nazis, however, were no problem.
Two of the answers add a dimension to physics that doesn’t belong there. Maybe we could call it "astrotheology."
From the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang (and even before) to our dark energy-dominated present, how and when did the Universe grow up?
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, there were only free protons and neutrons: no atomic nuclei. How did the first elements form from them?
The Big Bang's hot glow faded away after only a few million years, leaving the Universe dark until the first stars formed. Oh, the changes!
The brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed, GRB 221009A behaved in unexpected ways that might help us understand how they occur.
For Buddhists, the “Four Noble Truths” offer a path to lasting happiness.