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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.

Synthetic Life: Scientists Are Building Life Forms from Scratch

Envision the world where not only nature evolves life but it is also made in a laboratory-designed, constructed, and directed. This thrilling science is referred to as synthetic life and it is one of the most audacious scientific frontiers of the present era.

The Voynich Manuscript: The World's Most Mysterious Book

Lost in one of the Yale University libraries is a book so weird, so utterly incomprehensible, that it has thwarted the finest codebreakers, linguists, and computer scientists.

Dyson Spheres: Mega-Structures That Could Harvest a Star's Power

Imagine a civilization so advanced it wraps an entire star, harvesting its power like a celestial engine.

The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens?

The universe should be teeming with life, so why does its overwhelming silence feel almost threatening?

How We Could Terraform Mars (And Whether We Should)

Humanity dreams of reshaping a dead planet but the cost of playing creator may be far greater than imagined.

Ball Lightning, Earthquake Lights, and Other Strange Natural Phenomena

Across the world, eerie lights flicker before storms and quakes, revealing nature's rarest and least understood forces.