Our first “Ask a Scientist” feature is all about the ever-growing universe.
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Consciousness expert Michael Graziano on what, if anything, makes us uniquely human.
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Remembering a 1972 symposium gathering of the world’s greatest physicists.
Even if you remove everything you can from the Universe, some energy will still remain. Here’s what that means. Imagine, if you can, what it would mean to have a Universe […]
As more data comes in, the puzzle gets deeper and deeper. Whenever you set out to solve a problem, there are a series of steps you have to take in order […]
After Kepler but before James Webb, TESS is preparing astronomers for the coming exoplanet revolution. There are always new discoveries and achievements occurring in science, and certain fields have experienced […]
It marks another milestone in SpaceX’s long-standing effort to make spaceflight cheaper.
Astrophysics has probed a test of a fundamental law, ‘Lorentz invariance,’ well beyond the LHC’s limits. Einstein is still right. The greatest scientific legacy that Albert Einstein left us is this: […]
The organization argues that there is no evidence for this claim.
The iconic 20th-century artist might not sound how you’d expect.
Can the duo make plant-based chicken taste “finger lickin’ good”?
Documentary explores astrobiology, astronauts, and the awe of it all.
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The fine Facebook just paid was huge, but many in tech say it wasn’t nearly enough to protect your data.
It’s an incredibly useful approximation. But the truth takes us far deeper. Anyone who’s ever taken a physics course has learned the same myth for centuries now: that any object thrown, […]
It just might be a possibility.
There really is a cosmic conundrum about how fast the Universe is expanding. Changing its age won’t help. One of the most surprising and interesting discoveries of the 21st century is […]
Few scientific ideas have been as polarizing as string theory. There are good reasons to both love it and hate it. String theory is perhaps the most controversial big idea in […]
The answer is surprisingly simple, if cataclysmic.
How an off-the-radar Nobel Prize brings us ever nearer to finding a major cure.
Many deserving potential awardees were snubbed by the Nobel committee. But this takes the cake. Every October, the Nobel foundation awards prizes celebrating the greatest advances in numerous scientific fields. Alfred […]
Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer’s disease at bay.
We found 10 video games that kids will love (and they’ll secretly be learning, too).
First of a 3-part series about future technologies and their role in human flourishing.
Yes, the robots are coming — but take a breath.
On Friday, Uber will start publicly trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and drivers want to see some of that money.
And how cutting just $1 billion per year in funding from NASA’s budget would be a catastrophe for science. When you think of the great cosmic beyond and what we know […]
Black holes are regions of extreme gravity, but dark matter barely interacts at all. Do they play well together? Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the […]