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Has the Republican Party forgotten its past?
When two black holes merge together, about 5% of their mass gets lost. Where does that information go? Do merging black holes lose information? They absolutely must, according to General […]
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NASA's Michelle Thaller explains how an accidental discovery led to the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Sometimes, the biggest answers to the deepest questions come in the most unexpected of places. In the Solar System, anything out past Neptune is generally considered to be the outer reaches […]
Einstein's God is infinitely superior but impersonal and intangible, subtle but not malicious. He is also firmly determinist.
In theory, we could use high-energy lasers to make our own artificial black holes, potentially capturing the enormous energy they emit.
Recipe for awe: Coat one egg with Starlite. Blast it with a ridiculous amount of heat until charred black. Crack it open.
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Psychedelics are crude drugs. Could neuroscience and super-intelligent AI help us design something better?
Dark matter is one of the most puzzling, unintuitive concepts in all of physics. But we still need it. Our Universe isn’t like us. While we’re made of atoms, and other […]