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From exoplanets to supermassive black holes to the first stars and galaxies, Webb will show us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before.
Are the stellar remnants in our cosmic backyard actually our parents and grandparents?
“I suddenly woke up one day and thought, you idiot, you are letting your life fade away, you have got to do something.”
Creators of the popular protein-folding game, Foldit, are seeking help to design a treatment for COVID-19.
Construction is nearly complete for a camera that will take 3,200-megapixel panoramas of the southern night sky.
Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to […]
The study identified superhabitable planets outside of our solar system.
If you thought it was just one rich region in space, look deeper and wider. Shining brilliantly in January’s skies is the Great Orion Nebula. By 10 PM every night in […]
The present-moment awareness that stems from mindfulness practices may be the cost-effective tool that our society needs.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
“Hubble’s Law” is only an approximation, and breaks down when we need it most. From anywhere in the Universe, you can choose to look out at any other galaxy that’s present. […]
For the cosmos, it’s all too easy being green. Stars come in a wide variety of colors, but never green. Stars form in a wide variety of sizes, colors and masses, […]
Maybe 100% of stars don’t have planets, after all. When stars form in the Universe, they’re created in giant bursts. A stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy […]
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
When the COVID-19 crisis is over, how will education have changed? Will we have made the most of this moment?
Penguin poop and climate change are fuelling the spread of ‘snow algae’ down the Antarctic Peninsula
Delaying or refusing vaccines for non-medical reasons is literally a killer choice. When it comes to issues at the intersection of science and society, there are all sorts of things that […]
By the end of the decade, we may discover one million black holes. A large enough mass in a compact volume inevitably forms a black hole. Both inside and outside the […]
The inequalities impact everything from education to health.
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
Whether you write it 6/28 or 28/6, it’s perfection either way. Perfection might be a wonderful thing to strive for in life, but achieving it is very rare. In the realm […]
Despite the recent headlines, it’s an extraordinarily unlikely proposition. Have you ever wondered, if it were possible to travel through space straight ahead as quickly as you could imagine, if […]
Innovators don’t ignore risk; they are just better able to analyze it in uncertain situations.
Most elderly individuals’ brains degrade over time, but some match — or even outperform — younger individuals on cognitive tests.
The negative associations of introversion help to explain why loneliness now carries such social stigma.
A new web startup is selling algorithmically produced nudes of non-existent women. There’s still some ethical concerns.
A new study finds it may take decades or even a whole lifetime to appear.
Without these two elements, we’re doomed to fail. In this day and age, it’s virtually impossible to have sufficient expertise to figure out what the complete, comprehensive, scientifically validated truth surrounding […]
A Mercury-bound spacecraft’s noisy flyby of our home planet.