Articles for category: Material Science, Space

Cosmology Says the Universe Will Eventually Reach a State Where No New Star Can Form and No Light Can Travel - and the Length of Time Before That Happens Is a Number So Large That Writing It Down Tells You Nothing Useful About Its Size

Cosmology Says the Universe Will Eventually Reach a State Where No New Star Can Form and No Light Can Travel – and the Length of Time Before That Happens Is a Number So Large That Writing It Down Tells You Nothing Useful About Its Size

Sameen David

If you zoom out far enough in your imagination, past your city, past the Milky Way, past every galaxy we can see, there is a future waiting for the universe that is almost impossible to emotionally digest. Cosmology suggests that one day there will be no new stars, no galaxies shining, and eventually not even ...

What If Yellowstone Erupted Tomorrow Compared to Ancient Supervolcanoes?

What If Yellowstone Erupted Tomorrow Compared to Ancient Supervolcanoes?

Sameen David

Imagine waking up tomorrow and seeing headlines that Yellowstone has started a full-blown supereruption. Flights grounded, ash drifting across entire states, live streams of a boiling sky over Wyoming. It sounds like the opening scene of a disaster movie, but the science behind this kind of event is both more sobering and more nuanced than ...

Why Some Ancient Structures Seem Too Advanced for Their Time

Why Some Ancient Structures Seem Too Advanced for Their Time

Sameen David

You know that feeling when you stand in front of an old building and think, there’s no way people did this with stone tools and no computers? That sense of quiet shock is exactly what some ancient structures trigger in you, especially once you start digging into how old they really are and what people ...

Evolutionary Science Says the Reason Human Babies Are Born Helpless Compared to Every Other Primate Is That the Brain Grew Too Large to Exit the Birth Canal Any Later - and Both Mother and Child Have Been Paying That Price Ever Since

Evolutionary Science Says the Reason Human Babies Are Born Helpless Compared to Every Other Primate Is That the Brain Grew Too Large to Exit the Birth Canal Any Later – and Both Mother and Child Have Been Paying That Price Ever Since

Sameen David

If you have ever held a newborn and thought, with a mix of awe and terror, that they seem wildly unprepared for the world, you are not alone. Human babies cannot cling to their mothers, cannot walk, cannot even reliably control their own heads for weeks. Compared to a newborn chimp or gorilla that can ...

Cosmology Says the Darkest Patches of Sky Between the Stars Are Not Empty - They Are Filled With Something That Outweighs All Visible Matter Combined and That Science Has Been Unable to Directly Detect for Fifty Years

Cosmology Says the Darkest Patches of Sky Between the Stars Are Not Empty – They Are Filled With Something That Outweighs All Visible Matter Combined and That Science Has Been Unable to Directly Detect for Fifty Years

Sameen David

You have probably stared up at the night sky and assumed that the black spaces between the stars are just nothingness. It feels natural to think that way: bright dots are “something,” dark patches are “empty.” But modern cosmology says you’ve got that backward. Those apparently empty regions are where most of the universe’s matter ...

Cosmology Says the Universe Has a Sound Recorded From the Oldest Light in Existence - and the Note It Is Playing Is 57 Octaves Below Anything the Human Ear Can Detect

Cosmology Says the Universe Has a Sound Recorded From the Oldest Light in Existence – and the Note It Is Playing Is 57 Octaves Below Anything the Human Ear Can Detect

Sameen David

You live in a universe that, long before there were stars, planets, or people, literally rang like a gigantic bell. That cosmic ringing left ripples in the oldest light you can see, and from those ripples, scientists have figured out that the universe has a “note” – an unimaginably deep tone, fifty‑seven octaves below anything ...