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If you thought that a supercomputer would be able to start its own simulated universe, we would have laughed at you a few years ago. Today though, we’d be eating our words. Recently, a supercomputer managed to start an infant universe (based on our own) and show how it transforms from a featureless landscape to […]

Whenever meetings take place with members of the European Space Agency, you expect to hear a lot of interesting stuff. While there was quite a lot of news coming out of their meeting in Paris, France this past week, the big one has to do with the upcoming budget. The ESA’s budget will be increasing […]

Artemis 1 launched into space after over a decade of building and perfecting everything. It launched out of the Kennedy Space Center on November 16th, to the cheers of everyone at NASA and other international space agencies worldwide. The Orion Spacecraft was stacked on October 20th, marking the very first time a super-heavy-lift vehicle has […]

It is rare that science declares a species to be long-dead only for it to turn up alive somewhere. It is very common for a species to be endangered, and sometimes specialists claim that a particular species is nearly or assumed to be extinct. Yet to be so sure that an extinct title is put […]

While Daylight Saving Time seems odd and does not have anything to do with our health, some claim it actually does. This past weekend, we left the Daylight Saving Time period and entered into the regular time when we moved our clocks back an hour. One has to wonder, how could moving a clock back […]

The James Webb Telescope has already been able to provide astronomers with a ton of incredible data and images. It launched in 2022, and some might have assumed it was only considered to replace other telescopes in space for a few years. However, NASA has spent decades on this thing! It seems to have already […]

Imagine you are at a Las Vegas casino and you’re approaching the roulette table.  You notice that the last eight numbers were black… so you think to yourself, “Holy smokes, what are the odds of that!” and you bet on red, thinking that the odds of another black number coming up are really small.  In […]

The word ‘tumbleweed’ generally conjures up images of wild west towns and cowboys. Two gunslingers standing in the main street, onlookers cowering in fear, harmonica music playing, a tumbleweed rolling through between the two men as they face-off. What you probably don’t think of is a modern paved road where the tumbleweeds can be found […]

You walk out across the frozen ground. Your boots crunching on the snow as you approach the orchard. The snow-dusted trees seem ominously dark compared to the rest of the landscape. You slowly enter the grove of trees and see the transparent ethereal fruit hanging from the tree branches before you reach out to pluck […]