NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft crushed rocks and sent rubble flying as it briefly touched an asteroid, a strong indication that samples were collected for return to Earth, officials said Wednesday. Scientists won’t know until next week […]
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50–50 Chance We Live in a Simulation
Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology. Ever since Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford wrote a seminal […]
Scientists Found a New Way to Control the Brain With Light
Unlike Neuralink and other neural implants, the study suggests it’s possible to control the brain without surgery or implants. All you need is light. Optogenetics uses light of different frequencies to control the brain. It’s […]
Writing about Natural Selection, a Thousand Years before Darwin
Professors are starting to orient Charles Darwin within a rich history of people from all cultures who have grappled with the mechanisms of life. Evolutionary musings have existed before Darwin, and some professors and museums […]
The Monster at the Heart of our Galaxy
Andrea Ghez, who won the Physics Nobel earlier this week, speaks in 2016 about the work which won her the prize. Through the capture and analysis of twenty years of high-resolution imaging, Dr. Andrea Ghez […]
The Wow! Signal: An Alien Missed Connection?
Did humanity’s first contact with aliens already happen back in 1977? Probably not, but we may never know for sure. On August 15, 1977, the Big Ear Radio Telescope in Delaware, Ohio, received the most […]
There Were Other Universes Before the Big Bang
Sir Roger Penrose, a mathematician and physicist who just won the Nobel Prize for work in the field of black holes, suggested that our universe was not the first to exist. “The Big Bang was […]
What Is the Sound of Thought?
Why do we include the sounds of words in our thoughts when we think without speaking? Are they just an illusion induced by our memory of overt speech? These questions have long pointed to a […]
A New Solar Cycle Begins
Researchers are forecasting a period of relatively placid space weather as the sun enters its 25th solar cycle. Solar cycles last roughly 11 years, and we’re about nine months into number 25, which began in […]