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Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.
If you want to share the truths about our Universe with others, don't fall into the trap of arguing with a misinformer. Do this instead.
"Even with my training, I still got insights from the book’s descriptions. That’s how good Carroll is at explaining physics."
It's the very closest stars to us that hold the key to unlocking the possibilities for life in star systems all throughout the Universe.
The "attention economy" corrupts science.
An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.
Scientific journals, which are supposed to be the sacred scriptures of academia, are often full of shoddy research and misinformation.
It might seem like science and faith are at war, but the two have a historical synergy that extends back in time for centuries.
John Templeton Foundation
Pseudoscience is science’s shadow.
It didn't look like anything I'd seen before, but I'd be a great fool to consider "aliens" as a reasonable possibility.
You've spent almost a decade gaining extremely specialized skills. But that's ok; your value is greater than you realize.
In the latest edition of the Starts With A Bang podcast, we talk with soon-to-be Dr. Arianna Long about galaxies, from birth to today.
Many people perceive the struggle to understand our Universe as a battle between science and God. But this is a false dichotomy.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we'll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
Most people have a distorted view of what being a scientist is like. Scientists need to make a greater effort to challenge stereotypes.
Please stop calling our Sun an "average star." It is philosophically dubious and astronomically incorrect.
The first supernova ever discovered through its X-rays has an enormously powerful engine at its core. It's unlike anything ever seen.
Developing an awareness of and an appreciation for science is what we all truly need, not what we've been doing.
The same (former) NASA engineer who previously claimed to violate Newton's laws is now claiming to have made a warp bubble. He didn't.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
The majority of the matter in our Universe isn't made of any of the particles in the Standard Model. Could the axion save the day?
Even some philosophers don’t think highly of philosophy, but we need it now more than ever.
Debris from Pluto-sized collisions, not aliens, are streaming through the galaxy. In 2017, scientists discovered an object passing through our Solar System that was unlike anything else we had ever seen. […]
It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not an opinion. And it’s not biased like you think it is. Most of us, when we think about what science is, default […]
There’s a flowchart if you aren’t sure. It’s a situation that comes up all too frequently: an expert in their field publicly states a conclusion that is thoroughly accepted by the […]
Here’s how the closest place to “hell” in our Solar System might actually be home to life. From afar, Venus seems like the most uninhabitable planet of all. NASA’s Magellan mission […]
Whether you caught or missed the eclipse of January 20/21, 2019, here’s what you need to know for all the ones you’ll ever view again. On January 20/21, 2019, a very […]
Everyone in the Universe needs a break sometimes. They say that all work and no play make Jack a dull boy, and with very few exceptions, I’ve been working hard […]
Even our scientific heroes can’t be right about everything. Let’s learn the lessons that they never did. In the 1960s, a young theoretical physicist named Stephen Hawking rose to prominence as […]
A new look at the intertwined lives of two of the 20th century’s greatest minds. In the years prior to World War II, physics was in an odd, post-revolutionary state. Quantum […]