Space·Jan 7Why Is the Ozone Hole Shrinking, and Is There a Conspiracy Against Freons?There is an opinion that a conspiracy theory is not when someone spreads false but personally beneficial information but when everyone —…A response icon1A response icon1
Space·Jan 5Fields Are Parameters, and Light Is Just Energy: What They Definitely Didn’t Tell You About…You’ve almost certainly heard of Maxwell’s equations if you took a standard high school physics class. But the real value of this system is…
Space·Jan 3Where Did the Speed of Light Come From — and Why Is It That Value?For some reason, no matter whom you ask, everyone seems to think that anything related to the speed of light is an obvious synonym for the…A response icon1A response icon1
Space·Jan 2The Cosmonaut’s Heiresses: What Became of Gagarin’s Exemplary Daughters?The first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was an exemplary family man. Despite the titanic physical strain, an overwhelming schedule, public…
Space·Dec 19, 2025Is 3I/ATLAS really “too strange” to be just a comet?A few months ago, we released a video about the famous third interstellar object, 3I/Atlas. On October twenty-ninth the comet reached…A response icon1A response icon1
Space·Oct 25, 2025What Does It Take To Colonize Mars?In recent years, there has been constant discussion about sending humans to Mars and the possibility of colonizing the planet in the…A response icon1A response icon1
Space·Oct 20, 2025Quantum Mechanics in 18 MinutesQuantum mechanics explains the world at tiny scales, where every object is described by a wave function — a cloud of probabilities for its…A response icon2A response icon2
Space·Jun 11, 2025Could Life Based on Plasma or Dark Matter Exist?The universe mocks our pitiful attempts to squeeze the concept of “life” into the narrow confines of carbon chains splashing in puddles of…
Space·Jun 11, 2025Neural Network Crosses the Event Horizon of Black Holes — and Comes BackA team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen from Radboud University (Netherlands) trained a neural network to analytically process large…A response icon1A response icon1
Space·Jun 10, 2025A Supercomputer Revealed the Final Seconds of a Star’s “Life” Before Falling Into a Black HoleA supercomputer has simulated one of the most dramatic events in the cosmos, reports The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Using cutting-edge…