A Eulogy for the World That Affirmative Action… Over breakfast yesterday, I read that physicists had discovered a sonic hum perhaps caused by enormous objects like…
Scientists Found Ripples in Space and Time. And… The whole universe is humming. Actually, the whole universe is Mongolian throat singing. Every star, every planet,…
Breakthrough Gravitational Wave Findings Suggest… Astronomers and astrophysicists at five different pulsar timing array collaborations today announced data that…
The Quest to Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull… Hotta found, to his surprise, that a simple sequence of events could, in fact, induce the quantum vacuum to go…
Largest-Ever Cosmic Explosion Has Raged for… Astronomers have witnessed the largest explosion in space. The explosive event labeled AT2021lwx was observed to…
Researchers Argue Black Holes Will Destroy All… Intriguingly, this kind of decoherence will occur anywhere there is a horizon that only allows information to…
The ‘Bad Astronomer’ Takes You on a Tour of the… In the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which debunked conspiracy theories and…
The Big Bang’s Afterglow Reveals Invisible… Nearly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the primordial plasma of the infant universe cooled enough for the first…
Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible… The cosmos seems to have a preference for things that are round. Planets and stars tend to be spheres because…
Lab-Leak Intelligence Reports Aren’t Scientific… Intelligence reports have a checkered history. They have recently seized center stage in the debate over the origin…