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Did Stalin really pluck a live chicken to show how he controlled the masses?

Distinguishing fact from fiction can be tough, especially when it comes to people as controversial as Stalin.

Throwback Thursday: Finding the Universe’s first atoms

How we discovered what the Universe was made of when it first formed. Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/K. Getman et al.; IRL NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA/J. Wang et al. “The nitrogen in our DNA, […]

Starts With A Bang

What is the Multiverse, and why do we think it exists?

An extraordinarily simple explanation of the most mind-boggling concept of modern science. “In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.” -Walt […]

Starts With A Bang

The most important supernova of the new millennium

How the closest supernova in a generation — soon to be visible to skywatchers almost everywhere — is about to help us better understand the entire Universe. “I saw a star explode and send […]

Starts With A Bang

Why did the Universe start off with Hydrogen, Helium, and not much else?

Where the first atoms in the Universe — the progenitors of all the normal matter that makes up everything we know — came from. “I see a lot of new faces. But, you know the […]

In Defense of Divorce

Today we will take a few minutes to show a little appreciation for an important right in Western society – the right to divorce. It is important to celebrate this […]