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Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they're doing.

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A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology

All of the matter and radiation we measure today originated in a hot Big Bang

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In a distant galaxy, a cosmic dance between two supermassive black holes emits periodic flashes

Michael Faraday's 1834 law of induction was the key experiment behind the eventual discovery

What are supermassive black holes, how common are they, and how do they grow up

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The importance of baby talk.

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The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place

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There are two types of missing, or "dark" matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and

People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species." The

All stars, eventually, run out of fuel and die. Given all the stars we can

As the Earth spins and wobbles on its axis and revolves elliptically around the Sun

Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took

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Some processes, like quantum tunneling, have been shown to occur instantaneously. But the ultimate cosmic

There's an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets

Nothing can escape from a black hole. So where do Hawking radiation, relativistic jets, and

All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be

The space telescope's findings challenge the notion of a galaxy brimming with life.

Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet

Two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe disagree. What's the root cause

A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by

Cosmology is unlike other sciences. When our view of the Universe changes, so does our

Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it's

A relatively new interpretation of quantum mechanics asks us to reimagine the process of science

How fast is the Universe expanding? Two major methods disagree. New JWST data, just released

We are not the center of the Universe, but life is.

Ever wonder what would happen if we got sucked into a black hole? Turns out

A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby

The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in

By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of

Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth's specific evolutionary history guarantees

With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that

Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity

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