There’s something unsettling about the notion that the choices we make every day might not truly be ours. When you decided what to eat for breakfast or whether to hit the snooze button this morning, you probably believed those decisions were under your control. You felt like you were calling the shots. What if ...
Picture staring up at the stars, contemplating the vastness of the cosmos, and then suddenly wondering if everything you see is actually happening inside something else entirely. It’s one of those thoughts that makes your brain hurt a little. Scientists have long pondered the mysteries of where we came from and what existed before ...
When you look up at the sky, the sun dominates everything. It’s bright, it’s warm, and it seems impossibly massive compared to everything else we can see. The idea that astronomers actually classify our sun as a dwarf star probably sounds ridiculous at first. How could something that large and powerful possibly be considered ...
What if the weight of everything around you, from the coffee cup in your hand to the chair you’re sitting on, isn’t really what you think it is? What if mass itself doesn’t come from some mysterious field permeating the universe, but from the very shape of reality twisted into dimensions we can’t even ...
There’s something uniquely unsettling about a hotel room. You’re surrounded by walls that have held countless strangers, slept in a bed where hundreds have laid their heads, and occupied a space thick with history you’ll never fully know. Most of the time, we brush off that eerie feeling and drift into sleep without a second ...
Picture our Moon, that barren, airless rock hovering in the night sky. For decades, scientists thought it was completely isolated from Earth beyond the tug of gravity. Yet something strange has been hiding in the lunar dust all along. Traces of water, nitrogen, and noble gases showed up in samples brought back by Apollo missions, ...
Deep beneath your feet, something extraordinary is happening. Miles below the surface, in a realm where pressures crush with the force of millions of atmospheres and heat rivals the surface of the sun, scientists have finally confirmed what they long suspected. The heart of our planet isn’t quite solid, and it’s definitely not liquid either. ...
Have you ever woken up from a dream so vivid, so strange, that you wondered what on earth your brain was doing while you slept? Maybe you were flying through impossible landscapes, or confronting people from your past in scenarios that made zero sense. Dreams have puzzled humanity for centuries, inspiring myths, art, and ...
Have you ever wondered where your thoughts really come from? Not just the neurons firing away inside your skull, but the deeper source of consciousness itself. For most of us, the idea that our brain produces our awareness seems natural. After all, that’s what we’ve been taught for decades. Yet here’s the thing. A ...
Have you ever wondered how our vast cosmos might eventually meet its end? For decades, scientists believed the universe would simply expand forever, cooling into a lonely, frozen void. Yet recent discoveries from powerful observatories have challenged this long-held view, suggesting something far more dramatic could await. Think about everything around you collapsing back into ...
Leander McCabe Maritz, BA (Law) English & Philosophy
Maria Faith Saligumba
