Cosmic Discoveries
That Changed Everything
What Would Alien Life Actually Look Like? Not Little Green Men
Popular culture has been creating a pretty slim picture of alien life over the course of a century. We fantasize crazy, humanoid beings with green skin, big heads, and giant eyes, such as the grays, or the little green men who constantly appear to be creeping behind the UFOs. These depictions have become so iconic that we have forgotten that there is a universe.
The James Webb Telescope’s Strangest Discoveries (So Far)
The release of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on Christmas Day 2021 made the astronomers hope that the telescope would help answer some of the largest mysteries of the universe. What they had not anticipated...
The Physics of Everyday Things: Why Toast Lands Butter Side Down
It is so much of a thing that it has become almost a law of nature that when you drop a slice of buttered toast, more likely than not it falls butter side down. Since time immemorial, people have made fun of the curse of the buttered toast.
