Objects coming into our solar system have an origins story to tell.
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Living 150 years sounds great… till you consider the effects on population.
“They” has taken on a not-so-new meaning lately. This earned it the scrutiny it needed to win.
The view from way out there really puts things in perspective.
Check out the curriculum for the nation’s first cannabis-focused bachelor’s program.
A review of Matthew Engelke’s How to Think Like an Anthropologist.
Across the land, state-driven pacts, partnerships, councils and task forces replace a coordinated federal response.
From ultra-realistic graphics to more intelligent A.I. characters, the 2020s will bring some mind-bending video games.
Bill Bryson’s new book, “The Body: A Guide For Occupants,” provides important (and funny) lessons in anatomy, neuroscience, physiology, biology, and more.
Maya Angelou will be commemorated in a new permanent art installation in San Francisco. Poet and novelist, Angelou had a storied relationship with the city. She attended the George Washington […]
To find the optimal route between many different locations, we need the power of quantum computers.
A new web startup is selling algorithmically produced nudes of non-existent women. There’s still some ethical concerns.
An algorithm produced every possible melody. Now its creators want to destroy songwriter copyrights.
A computer coder and a lawyer decide they have a right to speak for all the songwriters that ever lived, those who are alive today, and all those yet to be born.
It isn’t just that mass and energy are equivalent and interchangeable. It tells us something fundamental about mass itself. Of all the equations that we use to describe the Universe, perhaps […]
Are you and your partner happy with your sex life?
Doctors put a human into suspended animation for the first time ever.
Maybe 100% of stars don’t have planets, after all. When stars form in the Universe, they’re created in giant bursts. A stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy […]
New software makes lab work go much faster—and hastens the search for cures.
New research on ankle exoskeletons show promising results.
In physics, anything that isn’t forbidden must occur. So why don’t the strong interactions violate CP-symmetry? If you ask a physicist what the biggest unsolved problem facing the field today […]
Conspiracies do happen. So, how do you know which theories might be worth investigating?
And do our black holes give birth to baby Universes? When it comes to our understanding of the Universe, the 20th century was full of surprises. A little over 100 […]
They say that seein’ is believin’. But everything we see has to have a scientific explanation. When you look at the Sun on a day where there’s a clear sky, […]
Don’t miss the summer’s greatest natural sights of all. Some of the natural highlights of our night sky are easy to overlook. Every year, you’ll hear about some of the brightest, […]
We trust science more than we even realize, and yet we’re quick to reject it. Why?
Researchers say further research is needed, though.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own facts. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but no one is entitled to their own […]
The first in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
We just found a system that we can’t explain. Here’s what’s going on. One of the most fascinating facts about the Universe is that there’s so much of it out there. […]