How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...
This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...
Abstract: With the growth of Internet of Things (IoT) application demand, the space-terrestrial integrated network (STIN) is deemed a promising solution to provide global seamless access services for ...
Critical Role Campaign 4 delves into the brand-new setting of Aramán, a world that is vastly different from that of Exandria, where the previous three campaigns were set. In this world, the gods were ...
In recent days, I have seen fellow union members declare that they can't vote for Zohran Mamdani for mayor because he is a democratic socialist. As educators, we strive to be knowledgeable about the ...
Scientists have taken one more step down the very long road to time travel. A new paper combines the Alcubierre “warp” drive with the idea of “controlled closed timelike curves.” Though far out, ...
I rewatched Inception after fifteen years, and I’m confident it still holds up as one of Christopher Nolan's best films. Beyond great filmmaking, what makes it one of the best sci-fi movies of all ...
Researchers have identified ice XXI, a newly discovered form of ice that forms under extreme compression and may reveal how water behaves deep within icy moons. (Artist’s concept). Credit: Stock ...
Scientists identified two types of brain cells, neurons and microglia, that are altered in people with depression. Through genomic mapping of post-mortem brain tissue, they found major differences in ...
Peering into deep space, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find places to study gravitational lensing, an effect in which massive objects such as galaxies warp space-time itself ...
Black holes are born from the collapse of giant stars and grow by gorging on gas, dust, stars and other black holes. For some of these gluttonous space-time ruptures, friction causes the material ...
Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...