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Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here's how they prove Einstein's relativity.
Human beings are tiny creatures compared to the 92 billion light-year wide observable Universe. How can we comprehend such large scales?
By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration in the workforce, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.
The “scientific Buddha” and the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism with regard to science are modern creations.
New tech is a double-edged sword. Integration can be expensive and perilous: Mess up the adoption and jobs are on the line.
From unexplained tracks in a balloon-borne experiment to cosmic rays on Earth, the unstable muon was particle physics' biggest surprise.
What we call "basic research" is actually the most cutting-edge. It underpins knowledge, and without it, technology does not come into being.
With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.
It took 9.2 billion years of cosmic evolution before our Sun and Solar System even began to form. Such a small event has led to so much.
A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby Universe, dating all the way back to the Big Bang.
You've spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that's ok; your value is greater than you realize.
Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new paper says no, it's 26.7 billion. How do we decide?
If the Universe is expanding, and the expansion is accelerating, what does that tell us about the cause of the expanding Universe?
Day trading has the potential to yield incredible profits, but without a time machine, you’re unlikely to achieve them.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
A Carrington-magnitude event would kill millions, and cause trillions of dollars in damage. Sadly, it isn't even the worst-case scenario.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
Society treats teenagers as if they’re a problem to be solved, but the truth is that we have to prepare them to solve our problems. It’s time that we change the narrative.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus, but free neutrons decay away in mere minutes. So how are neutron stars stable?
In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.