Could Scientists be Anti-Science?Science offers an opportunity to learn something new by collecting new data. Acquiring the data requires money and equipment. The problem…8h ago18h ago1
Is Time Continuous?The ancient Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea, who lived between 495–430 BC, came up with the arrow paradox about motion and the continuity of…1d ago41d ago4
“Down to Earth” Benefits of Looking Up at the SkyIn Oscar Wilde’s play “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” Lord Darlington observes: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the…2d ago2d ago
Commemorating Past Civilizations in the Milky-WayIn about a billion years, the Sun is forecasted to brighten up and turn the Earth into a desert like Mars. Based on the star formation…3d ago113d ago11
Are the Lost Soviet Spacecraft Venera 2 and the Dark Comet 2005 VL1 Different Objects?For the reason that koalas should not be classified as monkeys without a visible tail, spacecraft should not be classified as dark comets…5d ago15d ago1
Betrayal of Scientific Objectivity by the News MediaOn March 11, 2025, Cosmos Magazine published an article by Lauren Fuge about the scientific expedition to retrieve materials from the…6d ago116d ago11
Will Artificial Intelligence Win Over Natural Stupidity?My career in astrophysics started in 1987, when John Bahcall offered me a five-year postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton’s Institute for…Mar 1013Mar 1013
The Dark Age of ScienceNames do not constitute knowledge. However, some scientists enjoy the illusion that they know something about things by giving them names…Mar 919Mar 919
Death by a Primordial Black HoleThe early universe could have given birth to primordial black holes. If rare regions had an enhanced mass density such that their…Mar 75Mar 75
Is the “Dark Comet” 2005-VL1 the Venera-2 Spacecraft?A few months ago, a new paper was published in Publications of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) regarding a population of near-Earth…Mar 53Mar 53
