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How fast is the Universe expanding? Two major methods disagree. New JWST data, just released, strengthens this Hubble tension even further.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
Einstein's laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?
Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle among its adherents.
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Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin's work: 40 years later.
Some processes, like quantum tunneling, have been shown to occur instantaneously. But the ultimate cosmic speed limit remains unavoidable.
The multiverse pushes beyond the limits of the scientific method. From our vantage point in the Universe, we cannot know if it's real.
At the turn of the millennium, a physicist fooled the global scientific community with the greatest discovery that never existed.
It's a useful fiction — but it's still fiction.
Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.
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And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider "explaining what you know" to an actual expert in the field.
A surprising JWST discovery around Fomalhaut has a different, superior explanation: not a great dust cloud, but a mere background object.
If something exists, it is by definition natural.
They're the most common type of exoplanet known today, and many astronomers have called them "super-habitable." None of that is true.
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
Science isn't synonymous with technology; it's about a way of thinking.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what's real. That's not what he said.
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
Not everything that claims to be "scientific" actually is. There are five features of scientifically rigorous studies.
With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.
Be skeptical of a new study questioning the sweetener's safety.
So far, two papers have been retracted, and a third is under investigation. Accusations of plagiarism appear convincing.
In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.
If stars don't go supernova at first, they can get a second chance after becoming a white dwarf. But can their companions survive?
Recent measurements of subatomic particles don't match predictions stemming from the Standard Model.
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
Take a closer look at the different types of reasoning you use every day.