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For a substantial fraction of a second after the Big Bang, there was only a quark-gluon plasma. Here’s how protons and neutrons arose.

We only detected our very first gravitational wave in 2015. Over the next two decades, we’ll have thousands more.

In 1054, a core-collapse supernova occurred 6500 light-years away. In 2023, JWST imaged the remnant, and might solve a massive mystery.

Peer coaching can play a key role in building resilient, high-performing teams, while allowing remote workers to connect with one another from afar. 

The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?

Would you want to live in any of these places?

Brands manufacture meaning through consensus; people must strive to create their own.

Drones have a lot to learn from the landing abilities of birds.

We can do so much more, so much faster, with the same data. When you think about how astronomy works, you probably think about observers pointing telescopes at objects, collecting data […]

Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.

Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.

Undiagnosed brain disease or divine inspiration? The origins of the French composer’s most provocative composition remain up for debate. 

What started as a viral case of public shaming has morphed into a dark story involving internet sleuths, a criminal network, and the suspicious death of a 62-year-old man in St. Louis.

Both journalists have put themselves in danger to shed light on corruption and abuses of power in their home countries.

A report from MIT outlines a six-point plan to usher in a new age of nuclear power.

A computer that could decidedly pass Alan Turing’s test would represent a major step toward artificial general intelligence.

The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.

Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?

The last 70 years have taken us farther than the previous 70,000. But can we accomplish more than creating a record saying, “We were here?”

But the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope compels us to add, “so far.” Beginning with its 1990 launch, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized our conception of the Universe. This photo of […]

Here are five things to know before conducting a training evaluation.

From the explosions themselves to their unique and vibrant colors, the fireworks displays we adore require quantum physics.

The rarest stars in the Universe are the ones we need the most to make humanity possible. Like everything in the Universe, stars are born, they live a little while, […]

Too many people still view stay-at-home dads as feckless deadbeats, but their acceptance is an important step toward gender equality.

Even a small merger can trigger so much more than we realize. Practically every galaxy in the Universe has a supermassive black hole at their core. Ranging from millions to many […]

If our nearest star has an Earth-like planet, here’s how we’ll see it. As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization […]

After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way’s central black hole looks like.

We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?

Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.

Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.