Peer review is essential for science. Unfortunately, it’s broken.
There's no incentive to fix the system, which was never designed to catch fraud anyway.
There's no incentive to fix the system, which was never designed to catch fraud anyway.
They hold the keys to new physics. If only we could understand them.
While it won't make a useful spaceship engine, it may tell us more about relativity.
Someday, an NEO will pose a threat to us. Thankfully, we have options.
Here are two options for future humans to keep us in the habitable zone.
From Eratosthenes' circumference to black holes, we've learned a lot about the cosmos.
Simulations all the way down—the philosophical debate on the nature of our Universe.
Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples’ faces doesn’t work to change minds.
What if we dropped interstellar ambitions and focused on understanding our home system?
Solitude is not a curse—it urges us to explore the mysteries of our galaxy and beyond.
We're headed toward something we can't clearly see—and we'll never get there.
Here's the math behind making a star-encompassing megastructure.
How can we come to grips with a theory that doesn’t explain how anything works?
String theory was supposed to explain all of physics. What went wrong?
Solving the information paradox could unlock quantum gravity and unification of forces.
Cosmic strings' greatest power? Their ability to confound physicists.
Their magnetic fields—the strongest we've observed—could melt you from 1,000 km away.
Planning a trip to the Andromeda Galaxy? Not so fast.
If the inability to time travel were a fundamental part of our Universe, you’d expect equally fundamental physics behind that rule.
Living next to Ned Flanders won't teach you as much about the fundamental nature of reality.