Press enter or click to view image in full sizeWhen we see something like a ball balanced precariously atop a hill, this appears to be what we call a finely-tuned state, or a state of unstable equilibrium. A much more...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeLight is well known to exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, as imaged here in this 2015 photograph. What’s less well appreciated is that matter particles also exhibit those wave-like properties....
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeIn a shocking appearance to many, acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy announced on August 14, 2025 that NASA would be abandoning its commitment to a wide variety of scientific endeavors, including...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe human eye is an intricate organ, responsible for providing sight by focusing external light onto a retinal screen. While corrective lenses have been around for hundreds of years, the technique...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThis glorious photo, entitled “Milky Way Over Quiver Tree,” was taken in South Africa with a mobile device by astrophotographer Jilanfeng Dai, and won 2nd place in the Mobile Astrophotography category...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe panspermia hypothesis notes that on any world where life arises, impacts will occur, potentially kicking that life up and out of its home world, where it can seed new life...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeA visual history of the expanding Universe includes the hot, dense state known as the Big Bang and the growth and formation of structure subsequently. The full suite of data, including...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeIn 2019, with Hurricane Dorian bearing down on the Florida coast, the official NOAA predictions (in white) were edited with a sharpie to incorrectly align with previous Donald Trump statements (that...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeThe more massive a black hole is, the larger its event horizon is, but the stronger its gravitational effects are on the objects located behind it. Through strong gravitational lensing and...
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeInside the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the apparatus for accelerating collimated beams of particles was switched out in the early 2000s to transition from colliding electrons and positrons...
