The number of known exoplanets seems to grow every day. Most of them are worlds completely unlike our own. But some get pretty close to something resembling home – and may someday become exactly that. […]
It took humans 10,000 years to go from hunter-gatherers to world domination. Considering the vastness of time that humans and life have been on Earth, could this have happened once before? This question was put […]
We’ve never been able to journey to the center of the Earth, but thanks to an incredibly innovative experiment, we may not have to go there to understand what it’s like. Historically, we’ve explored our […]
Thanks to data from NASA’s MAVEN satellite, researchers have created the very first detailed map of the electric currents responsible for shaping the magnetic field that wraps around Mars. Researchers at the University of Colorado, […]
We’re now using viruses to make batteries…like the kind you could use in your car. So, how does that work and how close are we to a virus-powered car? After recognizing that we have the […]
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, communities of color have been — and continue to be — hit disproportionately hard. Let’s talk about why. When it comes to the racial health disparities that have […]
With the global pandemic of COVID 19 still encompassing the word, we are generally not big fans of viruses right now. But we sure are thinking about them a lot. That’s right, even astrophysicists are […]
It’s been 120 years since Henry Cavendish measured the gravitational constant with a pair of lead balls suspended by a wire. The fundamental nature of gravity still eludes our best minds – but those secrets […]
This is a map of the multiverse. Or in physics-ese, it’s the maximally extended Penrose diagram of a Kerr spacetime. And in English: when you solve Einstein’s equations of general relativity for a rotating black […]
The universe is precisely 13.8 billion year old – or so our best scientific methods tell us. But how do you learn the age of the universe when there’s no trace left of its beginnings? […]
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