As the Event Horizon Telescope prepares to release its first results, we can expect not just one, but two black hole images. What does a black hole actually look like? For […]
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FOIA release sheds light on the DOD’s own struggle to understand UFOs.
Japan looks to replace China as the primary source of critical metals
It’s found everywhere we know how to look, and just might be nature’s perfect fuel. Here’s how to harness it. Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in all of […]
No matter how long you wait, the matter that makes you probably won’t end up inside a black hole. It’s one of the most pervasive ideas out there: if you wait […]
New research suggests brains anticipate future events through a process called anticipatory timing.
Finding the particle we assume is responsible for dark matter has always been a guessing game. We guessed wrong. You can’t get mad at a team for trying the improbable, hoping […]
The Royole Corporation beat Samsung to the punch when it recently released the world’s first commercially available folding smartphone.
It was so well-motivated and compelling. But the particles never appeared. Every so often, an idea comes along in theoretical physics that’s undeniably profound. When a single idea can solve […]
We often think only of grown ups taking pills, this study reminds us children can take them too.
It’s the fastest orbit found in space so far.
It has already found several bizarre planets outside of our solar system.
If you thought LIGO’s recent discoveries were profound and unusual, wait until you meet OJ 287. Recently, LIGO has revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe by discovering merging black holes. The […]
The country’s paperless system serves as a model to other nations.
The I Ching serves as a foundation for many Eastern philosophies and Western mathematics.
13.8 billion years isn’t close to enough time, but if we wait long enough, even our Sun will become one. The Big Bang happened approximately 13.8 billion years ago, and it […]
What is the Scully Effect? It’s no coincidence that female fans of ‘The X-Files’ are inspired to choose careers in STEM fields.
If we were in a place like the Coma Cluster instead of the Local Group, we’d already be dead. In a living spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way, the rich gas […]
Technology entrepreneur and CEO of X Prize Foundation, Peter Diamandis, believes that the sweet spot of true innovation is found in the sharing of “crazy ideas.” While a company or […]
An Oxford physicist tries to cast doubt on dark energy, but the data says otherwise. It was a mere 20 years ago that our picture of the Universe got a […]
The Israeli historian has plenty to say.
Anxious? Dr. Frankl suggested you take a different view of things.
The comics titan worked for more than half a century to revolutionize and add nuance to the comics industry, and he built a vast community of fans along the way.
A new book about life under communism reveals an unexpected benefit.
A new AI-produced commercial from Lexus shows how AI might be particularly suited for the advertising industry.
Tech inventor Elon Musk has developed a “tiny, kid-size submarine” that could help rescue the four boys and their soccer coach who remain trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand.
New York Times reporter Melissa Chan outlined in a Twitter thread how authoritarian governments strategically destroy the reputations of journalists they dislike.
NASA announced the five winners of the latest phase of its 3D-Printing Habitat Competition for designing the structures to be used by humans on Mars.