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ift.tt/36MFZoM “Physicists like to probe the extreme,” said Garrett Goon, a physicist at Carnegie Mellon University. “The fact that you can’t go further, that something is changing, something is blocking you — something interesting is happening there.” For decades, black…

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ift.tt/3eiLxtr I am obsessing over outdoor cabins since we are all stuck indoors. My favorites are the ones like LUMIPOD because they bring the vastness of nature into your cabin through the thoughtfully designed structure and, in this case, creative…

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ift.tt/2XAj3EO HiPOD 26 May 2020: Exquisite Layering Much of Mars is covered by sand and dust but in some places stacks of sedimentary layers are visible. In this image, exquisite layering is revealed emerging from the sand in southern Holden…

ift.tt/2yD9EEe Space The Beautiful, Irregular Universe A new x-ray survey of distant galaxies suggests that the universe is expanding unevenly By Andrea Gawrylewski on May 26, 2020 Credit: Scientific American Space & Physics June 2020 Advertisement In my eighth-grade science…

ift.tt/2A4vMYo Who could resist the title? László F. Földényi’s new book of essays is called “Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts Into Tears” (Yale). It sounds like something that might happen in a Dostoyevsky novel: cause and effect scrambled,…

ift.tt/3gfXKBf Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 May 24 Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon…

ift.tt/2XmZos7 Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext:As far as I know, this is the first exploration of this problem from the perspective of being distracted by a cat. Today’s News: via ift.tt/3ejlhPX ift.tt/1Li4Gcy

ift.tt/2WV8Zan The Libertarian Party plans to choose its presidential nominee tomorrow. The process will take place online, thanks to the coronavirus, so this weekend C-SPAN addicts will be denied the pleasure of watching live as delegates meet in person to…

ift.tt/2zYzNgY Bee awesome and make this tiny home. Two days ago was World Bee Day — May 20 — and it’s easy to overlook these tiny creatures so essential to life on this planet. Bees and the service they provide…

ift.tt/343Mi63 In our April Fools’ Day Insights puzzle, we offered two paradoxes for Quanta readers to resolve. As you’ll see, neither paradox withstands scrutiny, but the exact way in which they fail is interesting to reason out, as several readers…

ift.tt/2z9QBlf We all know how beautiful nature is – we continuously draw inspiration from it and set up space outside our homes for things to grow in an organized manner. But what if nature decided to overrun our boundaries and…

ift.tt/3cVb5N0 Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 May 21 Phases of Venus Image Credit…

ift.tt/36mbhTi Few recognize the vast implications of materials science. To build today’s smartphone in the 1980s, it would cost about $110 million, require nearly 200 kilowatts of energy (compared to 2kW per year today), and the device would be 14 meters tall, according…

Thirty years ago, “just for a laugh”, actor Peter Gordon wrote a poem for his wife Alison, and left it under her pillow. She liked it, and so he carried on, every day for 25 years. To this day, Gordon…

ift.tt/2WMOYme Cakes are often reserved for special occasions, like birthdays and anniversaries, but where’s the joy in that? If you ask us, Wednesday is as good a reason as any other. So turn on the oven, pick a recipe, any…

ift.tt/2zUMwRN [] It’s March 14, 2020, and my dad hurries to my brother’s house to warn him that “the government is going to be seizing things.” Rarely has my dad ever gone to my brother’s house, especially unannounced. “I’m worried…

ift.tt/2XmwQ1Y Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 May 20 Moon, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Milky…

ift.tt/2TmrzpB Thomas Dimson trained a model to generate words that don’t exist in real life and definitions for said imaginary words. If you didn’t tell me the words were machine-generated, I’d believe a lot of them were actual parts of…

As long as chickens are fed a nutritious diet, they’re usually pretty healthy, but Linda Hime of McPherson, Kansas advises new chicken owners to keep a stock of chicken-tending supplies on hand. “Always have everything you need to doctor your…