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Both effects could be responsible for a redshift. But only one makes sense for our Universe. In physics, like in life, there are often multiple solutions to a problem that […]
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It's one of the most consistent patterns in the unviverse. What causes it?
Do you have a magnetic compass in your head?
On Thursday, New Zealand moved to ban an array of semi-automatic guns and firearms components following a mass shooting that killed 50 people.
They didn't know it, but the rituals of Iron Age Scandinavians turned their iron into steel.
The Bill Gates-backed venture promises to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at a rate of under $100 per tonne.
If you accept cosmic inflation and quantum physics, there’s no way out. The Multiverse is real. Look out at the Universe all you want, with arbitrarily powerful technology, and you’ll never […]
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Here's why universal basic income will hurt the 99%, and make the 1% even richer.
Both panoramic and detailed, this infographic manages to show both the size and distribution of world religions.
Yes, a coup d'état.
"Here I want to remind all of you of a fact that the U.S. publicly defines outer space as a new battlefield," a Chinese foreign minister said.
Jody Greenstone Miller is founder and CEO of Business Talent Group. She’s seen companies lose great people simply because of the way management assumes a job must be structured: To […]
A new study, led by psychologist Jean Twenge, points to the screen as the problem.
The only other large galaxy in the local group is larger in size and has more stars. But mass? Perhaps we’re the biggest, after all. The Milky Way is home to […]
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You can say 'no' to things, and you should. Do it like this.
A NASA-led study suggests the stress of spaceflight seems to trigger various types of herpes to reactivate in astronauts.
A new method of growing mini-brains produces some startling results.
Archeologists had been doubtful since no such ship had ever been found.
The Canadian professor has been on the Joe Rogan Experience six times. There's a lot of material to discuss.
The planet has had life on it, in some form or another, for nearly as long as Earth has existed. If you came to our Solar System right after it formed, […]