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Lasers solve the mystery of the missing quill.
It will be the most extreme test of Einstein’s General Relativity ever. And we already have the data. With every year that goes by, the total amount of knowledge that humanity […]
The term socialism makes political discourse difficult. Should we do away with it altogether?
The rocket reached an altitude of 51 miles, meeting the Federal Aviation Administration’s definition of space.
The relationship between our genotypes and our psychological traits, while substantial, is highly indirect and emergent.
How does the largest welfare program imaginable have libertarian supporters?
The Universe was born with equal amounts of matter and antimatter. How did matter win? 13.8 billion years ago, at the moment of the Big Bang, the Universe was the hottest […]
A new set of images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory shows us what we’ve never seen before. The Pillars of Creation, 7,000 light years away in the Eagle Nebula, represents one […]
If quantum gravity is right, these gravitational ripples must be more than waves; they must be particles, too. Back in February of 2016, LIGO made an announcement that changed our […]
SpaceX recently secured about $507 million in new funding. Based on recent statements, SpaceX will put that cash toward three ambitious projects.
The second reason Sarah Robb O’Hagan — CEO of Flywheel Sports and former president of Gatorade — lost a job in her 20s is that “I was actually not courageous […]
In the mid-20th century, ‘physical cosmology’ was considered an oxymoronic joke. Today, it’s Nobel-winning science. Imagine you wanted to know everything you could about the Universe. You’d want to find […]
With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the Standard Model is now complete. Can we be sure there isn’t another generation of particles out there? The Universe, at a fundamental level, […]
Autism is a widely misunderstood condition surrounded by falsehoods, half-truths, and cultural assumptions.
NASA’s Michelle Thaller shares her prediction of what it will take to get people to Mars, including what role Elon Musk will play in that effort.
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If your Universe contains any matter at all, a constant Hubble parameter is absolutely impossible. Our observable Universe is an enormous place, with some two trillion galaxies strewn across the […]
He reminds us that meaning is wherever we choose to look.
The newest iteration of SpaceX’s flagship rocket hit a stumbling block during its first launch and has been delayed in order to work out unknown problems before another attempt.
The gem lapis lazuli is the source of luminescent blue in manuscript illustrations.
If they saw us as we were before the recent industrial revolution, would there be any reason to particularly care about us? All across the Universe, trillions of galaxies can be […]
It’s one of cosmology’s biggest unsolved mysteries. The strongest argument against it may have just evaporated. The ultimate goal of cosmology contains the greatest ambition of any scientific field: to […]
On Friday, NASA’s InSight Mars lander captured and transmitted historic audio from the red planet.
A new book tells the very old story in a fun way for a younger generation.
A single thought experiment reveals a paradox. Could quantum gravity be the solution? Sometimes, if you want to understand how nature truly works, you need to break things down to […]
Sticklers, pedants, and English teachers love to correct your grammar, but they can put their red pens down when it comes to these six folk errors.
Some are worried this represents an Orwellian move. At heart, it’s not.
The densest objects in the Universe are also the most difficult to destroy. But eventually, destruction always prevails. There are quite a few ways to make the black holes we […]