People don't want you to buy their stories — they want you to listen to them.

Gravitational lenses arise when foreground masses and background light sources properly align. Einstein rings are rare, but crosses abound.

"This will help people take meaningful steps to slow the rate of aging and increase what we call their health span or their kind of time of life expectancy free from disease."

“Our conscious awareness is everything. And the fact that it's still so mysterious to scientists and to all of humanity, the fact that it's still one of the great unsolved mysteries makes it something that everyone can be excited about and that inspires awe in everyone.”

A tour of the literary cover-ups, extraterrestrials, and cryptids lurking in the bookish backwoods.

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It's not about particle-antiparticle pairs falling into or escaping from a black hole. A deeper explanation alters our view of reality.