All protons have the same exact mass as every other proton. For particles like the Higgs boson, this isn’t true. One of the most puzzling aspects of quantum physics is how […]
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Shouldn’t mutually consenting adults be allowed to make these decisions for themselves?
The 385-million-year-old fossils show that trees evolved modern features millions of years earlier than previously estimated.
The origin story for our Universe got a major revision nearly 40 years ago. Time to catch up. 13.8 billion years ago, all the matter and energy contained within our Universe […]
There really is a cosmic conundrum about how fast the Universe is expanding. Changing its age won’t help. One of the most surprising and interesting discoveries of the 21st century is […]
Are these two words interchangeable?
Could ketosis be the answer to preventing deadly seizures during deep-diving missions?
New book focuses on some of the world’s most peculiar borderlines.
The view from way out there really puts things in perspective.
LIGO just announced the second neutron star-neutron star merger ever seen in gravitational waves. It doesn’t match the first. On August 17, 2017, an event occurred that forever changed how we […]
Expert opinion is divided on how effective riots can be on causing social change. However, these five examples show they can do something.
When you’re trying to peel back the veil obscuring the fundamental nature of matter, you have to look absolutely everywhere. Sometimes, the solution to a puzzle you’ve been stymied by […]
The solar farm is expected to save the airport millions over the following decades.
If parallel Universes or the multiverse are real, we might someday encounter a visitor who hails from another one. Here’s what to do. There are a lot of things that are […]
Your cat thinks your taste stinks. Also that you’re mingy with the laser pointer.
The hot Big Bang occurred 13.8 billion years ago, and there’s no other possible answer consistent with what we know today. Conceptually, it might seem like the simplest idea in existence […]
Finding the Higgs boson, gravitational waves, and imaging a black hole’s event horizon were huge. There’s even more to the story. From a scientific point of view, the 2010s have been […]
The first in a three-part series on the history of research on the origin of life.
But few critics actually addressed the science on climate change.
Most elderly individuals’ brains degrade over time, but some match — or even outperform — younger individuals on cognitive tests.
There are rules absolutely forbidding it from happening. But some particles do it anyway. All the matter we know of in the Universe is made up of Standard Model particles. Photons […]
Digitally recording historical sites could serve as insurance in the case of disaster.
There’s a lot we can do with current technology to help stem the tide of climate change, but future technology may help even more.
The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter are the brightest night sky objects. On Thursday evening, November 28, they’ll all align, plus Saturn, too. As the planets orbit the Sun throughout the year, […]
Some critics say the move is designed to shield those who profited from the dangerous drug.
In 1789, William Herschel discovered this unique moon around Saturn. 230 years later, its secrets are more promising than ever. Today marks the 230th anniversary of the discovery of Enceladus, one […]
And one of our planets has the orbiting moons to prove it. Despite the dangers posed to planet Earth by a comet or asteroid strike, our Solar System is actually an […]
The organization argues that there is no evidence for this claim.
It’s not a question of could they, but have they? Here’s how we’ll find out. It’s no secret that fragments of asteroids, comets, and other spaceborne objects have been found here […]
General Relativity has nothing to do with light or electromagnetism at all. So how to gravitational waves know to travel at the speed of light? There are two fundamental classes of […]