Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites continuously beam down ultra-precise timestamps, each message essentially saying, “It was 12:00:00.000001 when I sent this.” ...
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A new model suggests the universe may stop expanding and collapse in a reverse Big Bang, ending in a Big Crunch about 20 ...
We believe things because doing so helps us belong and upholds a certain moral order, but not necessarily because they are ...
Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...
Many Baby Boomers are sceptical about God. They think that believing in a higher power is probably incompatible with ...
Each year, the government spends more than £400bn on procurement, double the NHS budget and more than seven times defence ...
For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...