In 1998, cosmologists got the surprise of a lifetime. Here’s how our Universe would’ve looked without cosmic acceleration. “We’ve known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But […]
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It’s the most mysterious “stuff” our Universe has. So why are we so sure it’s real? “The Universe is made mostly of dark matter and dark energy, and we don’t know […]
How we talk about love has become blurry “low resolution language” (it’s life-organizing force is often dissipated on trifles). But looking at richer love language can help us improve our aim. And remind us that universal human rights came from a special kind of love that we all need.
It’s an old idea made new again, but it just might fall apart. “[The black hole] teaches us that space can be crumpled like a piece of paper into an infinitesimal […]
Even if the Universe grows to infinity, there might not be enough space to hold all the possibilities. “We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.” –Marina […]
Thanks to modern brain imaging technology, researchers have been able to discover how memory works, and how to manipulate it.
Ultra-deep field? Move over; there’s a new deepest-view of all! “In other words, theory attempts to segregate the minimum number of possible worlds which must include the actual world we inhabit. […]
Before the Big Bang… after the Big Freeze… will everything look the same? “What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as […]
1604 is the last time a human saw one with their naked eyes, but that wasn’t the most recent one at all. “When a star goes supernova, the explosion emits enough […]
More than just a pretty face, the Venus de Milo (rediscovered on this date in 1820) has changed ideas of female beauty ever since, often in surprising ways.
When the next big solar flare comes for Earth, will we be ready? “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to […]
The New York Times claimed that aliens must have existed at some point. But science is less certain. “There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve […]
Forget those WIMPy WIMPs, and move on up to WIMPzillas! “Eight solid light-years of lead…is the thickness of that metal in which you would need to encase yourself if you […]
The arctic research ship that captured the heart of the internet will NOT be named Boaty McBoatface. And the public is not happy about it.
Om nom nom nom nom… “That what wrong with the media today. All they have is questions, questions, questions. They never have cookies.” –Cookie Monster When most people think of black […]
Adam Smith hated greed. He’d likely be horrified to see how his name is now used. And any Smith fans who believe selfishness is a virtue distort what Smith called his best work.
A new study by a Harvard University economist shows surprising results about whom the police are actually more likely to shoot.
It seems very odd now, but one of the greatest thinkers ever, believed that we could rely on the love of math and its beauty to make us better people. Here’s why Plato thought so…
Without the inherent quantum uncertainty to nature, the source of all our light and heat would never shine. “The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and […]
If new kinds of drugs aren’t developed soon superbugs or antibiotic resistant bacteria could erase all the gains modern medicine has made. Even simple infections would become life-threatening. Fortunately, government plans are tackling the issue and some scientists have already found a few things that can take superbugs out.
Sotheby’s will auction off 380 pieces from Bowie’s collection later this year. The collection is “eclectic, unscripted, [and] understated,” according to Sotheby’s European chairman Oliver Barker.
Will it be Betelgeuse? Eta Carinae? Here are some candidates that are less popular, but perhaps more likely! “Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others — blue giants — burn […]
The Orion Nebula demonstrates the answer. “So numerous are the objects which meet our view in the heavens, that we cannot imagine a point of space where some light would not […]
I scored an exclusive interview with Dave Reitze, the executive director of LIGO. Take a trip inside his Universe. “When I was in high school, I was certain that being […]
Everything depends on it, and yet we don’t know it as well as we’d like! “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have […]
How we’ll directly take pictures of Earth-like planets in the future! “We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood […]
An incredible live-blog of an incredible event. “It’s becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new […]
It’s not in any form of light, and yet here we are, “seeing” the Universe all the same. “If the imprint is really due to gravitational waves from the big […]
If they shoot out straight lines of high-energy particles, why do they carve bubble-like shapes? “When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up […]
Charles Darwin probably wouldn’t like what his name now means. He called any “Darwinian” human, having no trace of team loyalty, “an unnatural monster.”