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There is no easy answer as to why we keep sales humming for books many would profess are not worth their time. “Betrayal” Lit, as so-called by The Daily Beast‘s […]
Sobering accounts from one of the most pivotal battles in world history.
Proposed over 2000 years ago by Democritus, the word atom literally means uncuttable. Revived in 1803, today's "atoms" can indeed be split.
The Universe isn't just expanding; the expansion is accelerating. If different methods yield incompatible results, is dark energy evolving?
In this excerpt from "Tales of Militant Chemistry," Alice Lovejoy exposes how the need for uranium during WWII led the Allied governments to turn a blind eye to colonial exploitation.
Different methods of measuring the Universe's expansion rate yield high-precision, incompatible answers. But is the problem robustly real?
In our Universe, dark matter outmasses normal matter by a 5-to-1 ratio, shaping the Universe as we know it. What if it simply weren't there?
Since 1998, we've known our Universe isn't just expanding, but the expansion is accelerating. Could the Big Bang itself be the reason why?
25 years ago, our concordance picture of cosmology, also known as ΛCDM, came into focus. 25 years later, are we about to break that model?
DESI, by mapping galaxies, has claimed they see evidence for dark energy evolving by getting weaker. But that's only one interpretation.
One of the most promising dark matter candidates is light particles, like axions. With JWST, we can rule out many of those options already.
One of the 20th century's most famous, influential, and successful physicists is lauded the world over. But Feynman is no hero to me.
The "little red dots" were touted as being too massive, too early, for cosmology to explain. With new knowledge, everything adds up.
Being bilingual benefits children as they learn to speak — and adults as they age.
There are a few clues that the Universe isn't completely adding up. Even so, the standard model of cosmology holds up stronger than ever.
Don’t argue with science. Just do it.
Einstein's laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
If you've found yourself befuddled by extraordinary scientific-sounding claims, you're not alone. But this centuries-old lesson can help.
There are three barriers we need to overcome to have better, more productive arguments.
Mammals have a history stretching back 325 million years. To study that ancient history is to know our own origins.
No matter how beautiful, elegant, or compelling your idea is, if it disagrees with observation and experiment, it's wrong.
Long before the Wordle mania, there was the crossword puzzle craze. And newspapers around the world condemned them as an “invasive weed” that caused mental illnesses and even murder.
50% of stars are in Sun-like ‘singlet’ systems. The planetary nebulae we see just don’t line up. Around 7 billion years from now, our Sun’s life will end. As the Sun […]
The dream of zero resistance is closer than you may think. One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical […]
Diogenes was no doubt odd, but Cynicism might just help our overcrowded lives.
This map of Europe's 20 most populous islands holds a few surprises and unlocks a truckload of trivia.
An information war is being waged.
Humans are woefully unaware of their olfactory sense. That's the reality we've been sold.
These pink feathered folk form complex social networks and are choosy about who they spend their time with, according to a new study.
'The Broad and Narrow Way' helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.