The number of known exoplanets seems to grow every day. Most of them are worlds completely unlike our own. But some get pretty close to something resembling home – and may someday become exactly that.
Spiros Michalakis is the Caltech quantum physicist who served as the science advisor on Bill & Ted: Face The Music and he was kind enough to sit down and chat about quantum physics, the nature of time, and the brilliant minds behind Bill & Ted.
It’s a term you’ve probably heard a lot. Late Stage Capitalism. People use it to describe the absurdities and wild inequalities of the world today. But what is it exactly, and are we really living in it? And if so, what comes next?
Our traditional view of robots as metal machines with computer brains is pretty hard-wired (pun intended) into the human psyche. But there are reasons to believe that living robots – robots made of soft or living tissue – might be the better option. Here’s why.
Magnetars are a type of neutron star with a magnetic field a quadrillion times stronger than the strongest magnets here on Earth. These stellar monsters are mind-blowing in every way and possibly the source of massive gamma ray bursts and fast radio bursts.
We’re all pretty much over the COVID-19 pandemic at this point, but how close are we to containing the disease, and how will it end?
We’ve been hearing a lot about the potential of solid state batteries over the last few years. But how close are we to the solid state revolution? And will it be a revolution at all?
Space shades are often touted as our last hope if our climate change situation gets too out of control. If we can’t keep carbon emissions down, we could just block the sun. I hear this option get thrown out very casually, but I’ve never seen a realistic look at what that would look like. How big would it need to be? How much would it cost? Wound it even work? So I decided to take a serious deep dive.
Astrophysicists are currently struggling to explain an inconsistency that has become a cosmological crisis, and it has to do with the Hubble Constant, which determines the expansion of the universe.
The Cambrian Explosion was a sudden proliferation of complex life forms in the early days of Earth, which created some of the most bizarre forms of life the would would ever see.
Solving The Mystery Of The Somerton Man With Professor Derek Abbott – Episode 22
If “The Universe Isn’t Real…” Then What Is It?
The Harpe Brothers: America’s First Serial Killers
This Company Wants To Build Offices In Space
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