Science

In the past decade, the rate at which extra-solar planets have been discovered and characterized has increased prodigiously. Because of this, the question of when we might explore these distant planets directly has repeatedly come up. In addition, the age-old question of what we might find once we get there – i.e. is humanity alone in the Universe or not? – has also come up with renewed vigor. These questions…

The pyramids, in general, are masterpieces. Tons of people in this day and age fawn over them each and every day. The Great Pyramid of Giza has even been dubbed one of the ‘wonders’ of the world. This pyramid was built with such precision that we would not even be able to begin replicating it. There are tons of theories about how it came to be, and who really built…

Scientists are seriously discussing the ability to create a new universe in a lab. This is mostly a philosophical discussion but more scientists are agreeing that it could actually some day be possible. Physicists aren’t often reprimanded for using risqué humour in their academic writings, but in 1991 that is exactly what happened to the cosmologist Andrei Linde at Stanford University. He had submitted a draft article entitled ‘Hard Art…

Two teams of astronomers have found a way to observe the presence of the missing matter connecting the galaxies in the universe. This discovery can improve our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the years following the Big Bang. Missing Links While teams of researchers continue the hunt for clues into the nature of elusive dark matter and dark energy, which comprise most of the known universe, other teams…