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How To Solve Any Problem Using Enrico Fermi’s Back-Of-The-Envelope Math (And Some Common Sense)

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...

Are we in the 'Solitude Zone' of the universe?

Are we alone? It's one of the most basic questions of human existence. People have been trying to answer it for millennia in ...

Europe's new space merger explores the FOMO frontier

Driven to the brink by Elon Musk's SpaceX, Europe's biggest satellite firms are setting aside longtime rivalries in a ...

Using entanglement to test whether gravity is quantum just got more complicated

Unifying gravity and quantum theory remains a significant goal in modern physics. Despite the success in unifying all other ...

The Most Vexing Variable in the Search for E.T.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...