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There Are Scars in Our Universe That Could Unlock Time Travel, Physicists Say
Einstein’s theories support the science behind this time-travel loophole. But could it actually work? In the moments before the Big Bang, our universe was a hot, dense, and extremely high-energy place. That all changed when the universe exploded 13.8 billion years ago. Rapid inflation divided a single “super” force into the four fundamental forces we know today: […]
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Scientists Found a Strange Life Form Caught in an Evolutionary Time Loop
“This study is a total game changer.” Evolution is often portrayed as a forward-moving natural force. Even the famous 1965 illustration of human evolution—from Pliopithecus to Modern Man—is known as the “March of Progress.” But of course, like most things in nature, things aren’t really that simple. Take, for instance, Lake Mendota. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, this lake […]
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Consciousness May Actually Begin Before Birth, Study Suggests
The light switch might flip on much earlier than we thought. Jonathan Kitchen//Getty Images For millennia, defining consciousness—both what it is and when it emerges—has been the tricky business of scientists and philosophers (and more recently, AI experts). And one of the biggest black holes in our knowledge, even though every human has experienced it, is exploring […]
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The Truth About the ‘Black Knight’ Satellite Conspiracy Theory
Some believe it’s an extra-terrestrial spacecraft. NASA says it’s probably just space junk. Here are the facts. Photo illustration by Alyse Markel using NASA photo Take a good look at the photograph above. NASA captured this image of a mysterious black object orbiting the Earth in 1998, during the first Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). […]
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Aliens From a Parallel Universe May Be All Around Us—And We Don’t Even Know It, Study Suggests
Our universe does host life, but it’s not the most optimal universe for life. Published in 1962 by American astronomer Frank Drake, Ph.D., the eponymous Drake equation sought to estimate the number of detectable alien civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy. This equation takes into account the average rate of star formation in the galaxy, the fraction of those stars that have […]
