Fermi’s Paradox, posed in the context of alien life, now applies online as well. Trolls have pushed many of us to stay off ...

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Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational ...

While studying, he worked under renowned physicist Enrico Fermi, the scientist behind the first nuclear reactor. During World ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

In simple terms, that assertion is correct, but for those with an expertise in the field, the longer answer to who did it ...

Fermi was a Nobel Prize winning physicist famous for quickly estimating answers to questions, like how many heart beats are ...

U.S. research on thermonuclear weapons began in 1941 following a conversation between Italian physicist Enrico Fermi – the creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor – and Hungarian ...

“It’s about being able to step back and look at your result. Does it make sense?” says Stefan Funk, a particle physicist who ...

Today, the Doomsday Clock was set to 89 seconds to midnight, signaling that experts fear we are dangerously close to a global ...