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No claim has even made it halfway up the Confidence of Life Detection (CoLD) scale, but 21st century science is just beginning to unfold.
Dark matter, dark energy, and the Big Bang are all part of a solid scientific foundation. Here's why popular media often claims otherwise.
Do aliens speak the same physics that we do, with similar laws, observables, and underlying mathematics. Maybe not, argues Daniel Whiteson.
Big Think spoke with astronomer David Kipping about technosignatures, "extragalactic SETI," and being a popular science communicator in the YouTube age.
Just because a paper passes peer review doesn't mean that what's written, or what the author asserts, is true. Here's why it still matters.
Explanations for the cosmic speed limit often conflate mass with inertia.
In theory, scientists could've produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn't happen.
The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists must have a cause, and the "first" cause must be God. Is that valid?
Timothy Caulfield, a leading science communicator, discusses the challenges of combatting misinformation in an age of information overload.
A new SETI study shows how far the field of technosignatures has come.
Astronomer Adam Frank reflects on some responses to his recent appearance on the Lex Fridman Podcast.
"Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions."
They’re in our brains, hearts, and blood — but what are they doing to us?
It's the ultimate setup for a Thanksgiving Day disaster. The physics of water and its solid, liquid, and gas phases compels us not to do it.
When we see pictures from Hubble or JWST, they show the Universe in a series of brilliant colors. But what do those colors really tell us?
In December 1968, human beings made their first-ever journey to the Moon aboard Apollo 8. Their most important discovery? Planet Earth.
As planets with too many volatiles and too little mass orbit their parent stars, their atmospheres photoevaporate, spelling doom for some.
Each time you fold a piece of paper, you double the paper's thickness. It doesn't take all that long to even reach the Moon.
Actor and science communicator Alan Alda shares his three rules of three for effective and empathic communication.
"I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic."
The evidence that pollution causes cancer is weak. Lifestyle factors, like smoking, obesity, and alcohol, matter far more.
A true scientific view of if, where, and when extraterrestrial life exists is within our grasp thanks to biosignatures and technosignatures.
Einstein's laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
Unless you're drinking a dozen diet sodas per day, you have nothing to worry about — and maybe not even then.
Science news presents a flood of breakthroughs and discoveries that promise to change our lives. They rarely do.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place in the world. Citizen science can help.
John Templeton Foundation
Quantum uncertainty and wave-particle duality are big features of quantum physics. But without Pauli's rule, our Universe wouldn't exist.
The curiosity of children is a national resource. Adults destroy it.
It's the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
In 1920, astronomers debated the nature of the Universe. The results were meaningless until years later, when the key evidence arrived.