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After years of analysis, the Event Horizon Telescope team has finally revealed what the Milky Way's central black hole looks like.
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
When you mix science with speculation, you get speculation. But the underlying science is still real. Whenever you hear the phrase, “it’s just a theory,” it should trigger alarm bells in […]
With launch, deployment, calibration, and science operations about to commence, here are 10 facts that are absolutely true.
Find out the truth for yourself. If this past year has shown us anything, it’s how thoroughly we rely on high-quality expertise. As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe, it […]
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
"It's kind of like a Fitbit in your skull with tiny wires," Musk said.
The Baltic nation rolls out an unlikely tourist attraction: 47 weird ice cream flavors.
We need more and better data to know, but that’s exactly what’s coming. Over the past few decades, a number of important advances have helped revolutionize our picture of the Universe. […]
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Despite all that we've learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could "God" be the answer?
Out of all the galaxies we know, only a few little ones are missing dark matter. At last, we finally understand why.
Think there are habitable super-Earths out there? Think again. Here in our Solar System, we have two very distinct types of planets: small, terrestrial, rocky worlds, with thin (or no) atmospheres […]
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The Big Theoretical Physics Problem At The Center Of The ‘Muon g-2’ Puzzle In early April, 2021, the experimental physics community announced an enormous victory: they had measured the muon’s magnetic […]
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn't made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
A few years ago, the first dark matter-free galaxies were announced, and then immediately disputed. Now, there are too many to ignore.
What speech is harmful, how do we know, and what do we do if we find out?
The newest record-setting quasar houses an enormous black hole. No one knows how. In every scientific field, we’re always on the lookout for whatever new discovery might reveal what’s currently beyond […]
What do we want to do with convicted criminals? Penology has several philosophies waiting to answer that question.
The English Department is instituting a series of reforms that cuts across the entire university.
A volcano in California is a hot spot for conspiracy theorists.
CERN’s bold new proposal has physicists confronting the biggest question of all: is building a new collider worth it? If you want to discover anything novel about the natural, physical […]
Whatever’s lurking out there, it isn’t all, or even mostly, normal matter. When it comes to the Universe, it’s only natural to wonder what, exactly, it is that makes everything up. […]
The Sun produces a wide variety of particles and radiation throughout it, but all of its neutrinos are produced in the core: where nuclear reactions take place. The various reactions […]
A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]
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 […]
If we’re migrating slowly away, is our speed changing, too? Every year, planet Earth completes one revolution around the Sun while spinning on its axis. On a year-to-year basis, our […]
It might not feel that way, but a 95% dark Universe really is the best game in town. No matter how much we might try and hide it, there’s an enormous […]