Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.
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For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
“The digital HQ – the digital infrastructure that supports productivity and collaboration – actually became more important than the physical HQ.”
As particles travel through the Universe, there’s a speed limit to how fast they’re allowed to go. No, not the speed of light: below it.
Earth is not a benign mother. We have begun to witness what happens when it unleashes its fury.
Cross-disciplinary cooperation is needed to save civilization.
Already 14 billion miles from the Sun, Voyager 1 is speeding away at 38,000 mph.
Their goal is a digital model of the Earth that depicts climate change in all of its complexity.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
If you want to find life in the Universe, this is how you do it. When it comes to uncovering the ultimate truths about reality, we can only reap what we […]
If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?
The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.
Remember Stephen Hawking’s robotic voice? It wasn’t a robot.
A new agricultural revolution could forever change the planet.
The more you like, follow and share, the faster you find yourself moving in that political direction.
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we’ll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here’s what everyone should know.
Science was never the same after meeting ‘the particle who lived.’ Back in the early 1930s, there were only a few known fundamental particles that made up the Universe. If you […]
Americans lose an estimated 321 million work days every year due to anxiety and depression.
It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not an opinion. And it’s not biased like you think it is. Most of us, when we think about what science is, default […]
Not long after the COVID-19 pandemic caused colleges to start teaching remotely, students balked at the idea of paying full tuition for online learning. It’s not hard to understand why. […]
The definitive answer requires better, unbiased data. Despite all the advances that have occurred in human history, one extraordinary puzzle still remains right in our own backyard: we aren’t sure how […]
There are three answers depending on what you consider the “edge,” but only two of them are known. If you were to go as far out into space as you can […]
They’re not just a theoretical prediction of quantum gravity. They should be detectable, too. The Universe, if you look at it closely and carefully enough, is fundamentally quantum in nature. […]
The theoretical reasons to expect it are compelling, but the technology required to detect it is unfathomable. All throughout our galaxy, millions of black holes of a variety of masses […]
Gyms and fitness centers are closed, but your living room is always open.
A new paper suggests a primordial black hole may be making things weird at the edge of our solar system.
For over 50 years, it’s been the scientifically accepted theory describing the origin of the Universe. It’s time we all learned its truths. The Universe we know today, filled with stars […]
Every day, humanity generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Every minute, users are sharing nearly 500,000 tweets, watching more than 4 million YouTube videos, and conducting more than 3.6 million […]
Colonizing the Red Planet isn’t a bad idea in theory. But . . .