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Humanity's newest, most powerful space telescope is performing even better than predicted. The reason why is unprecedented.
Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
Einstein tried to disprove quantum mechanics. Instead, a weird concept called entanglement showed that Einstein was wrong.
Most of us have heard that the Sun is an ordinary, typical, unremarkable star. But science shows we're actually anything but average.
He was also a eugenicist — but at least he could draw pretty pictures.
In 1920, astronomers debated the nature of the Universe. The results were meaningless until years later, when the key evidence arrived.
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Why do so many cultures celebrate holidays at the same time of year?
John Templeton Foundation
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How did complex systems emerge from chaos? Physicist Sean Carroll explains.
For years and over three separate experiments, "lepton universality" appeared to violate the Standard Model. LHCb at last proved otherwise.
You can lead an overconfident chatbot to expert knowledge, but can it actually learn and assimilate new information?
It's spooky, and it's happening all around us. And inside us.
The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.
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Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
The spikes in their mouths would have helped them catch squid or fish.
The answer to this question is key to understanding why anything exists.
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies gobble up whatever matter ventures too close, becoming active. Here's how they work.
Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.
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Debates about the existence of free will traditionally have been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don’t because they believe the Universe […]
There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.
Science is for everyone, even those possessing strongly held beliefs that seem to conflict with the best available evidence.
Your mentors made time for you. Now, go and make time for others.
In 1995, Hubble peered at the Pillars of Creation, forever changing our view. Now in 2022, JWST completes the star-forming puzzle.
Our understanding always will remain incomplete.
Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.
It's literally the one and only trick that separates top-notch physicists from crackpots, dropouts, and those who can't cut the mustard.
Dogs are seen as more likely to leap without looking – possibly a trait shared with their owners.
If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.