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Meet Deinococcus radioduranst, the world’s toughest bacteria.
The study is among the first to explore the relationship between emotional abilities, political ideologies, and prejudice.
This mystery comes in two varieties: repeating and non-repeating. Here’s what we know so far. Imagine that you were looking out at the distant Universe, watching the stars, galaxies, and the […]
The first image of an Event Horizon is here. Here’s what it means. Variety isn’t just the spice of life, but a natural consequence of living in our Universe. Gravitation, obeying […]
A vacuum cleaner is the wrong picture. Time to bust that myth. There are no classes of object in our Universe more extreme than black holes. With so much mass present […]
The startling discovery comes from researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey.
Think you’ve seen sand? You haven’t seen sand.
The companies launching satellites aboard the SpaceX rocket hope to revolutionize the Internet of Things.
Even with the best preparation imaginable, sometimes you have to get lucky, too. Even from our perspective in 2019, 50 years later, humanity’s achievements from July, 1969, still mark the pinnacle […]
What should a black hole look like? Our theoretical predictions are about to meet our first observations. In science, there’s no moment more exciting than when you get to confront […]
The robotics company is allowing select companies to lease the semi-autonomous robot.
The Universe is filled with something, as opposed to nothing, and scientists don’t understand it. When we look around at the Universe: at the planets and stars, at the galaxies […]
While legalization has benefits, a new study suggests it may have one big drawback.
On May 9, 2016, the prior transit of Mercury occurred, and was photographed many times on a practically continuous basis by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Transits of Mercury are rare, […]
And how it might ensure that future generations won’t have to face anything like this ever again. As of April 6, 2020, more than 1.3 million people worldwide have tested positive […]
The Amazon Rainforest is often called “The Planet’s Lungs.”
With 14 Tony nominations, HADESTOWN is redefining what a Broadway musical can be. Its creator, songwriter/singer Anaïs Mitchell sits down with Jason Gots to talk about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, making old things new, and leaving her songwriting cave (temporarily) for the theater.
In principle, the laws of physics are the same forwards and backwards. But in practice, time only runs in one direction. Most of the laws of physics are the same […]
We’ve never seen an image of a black hole’s event horizon before. Here’s what we’re expecting, based on what we already know. For hundreds of years, physicists have hypothesized that the […]
It’s not impossible according to physics, but we truly don’t know how this object came to exist. Out in the extremities of the distant Universe, the earliest quasars can be found. […]
SpaceX plans to launch about 12,000 internet-providing satellites into orbit over the next six years.
An elegant, 400-year-old means of navigating the stars takes flight.
The drones are nearly silent and are able to identify and track enemy soldiers.
There are three factors all competing to determine the fate of the Earth, and the one that’s winning now won’t win in the end. If you could measure the average distance […]
It’s only the second pocket shark specimen ever discovered.
The answer depends on how we choose to balance religious freedom, social inclusion, and the search for self-identity.
The first in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.