CU Boulder is one of five ‘spokes’ of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, charged with exploring the nature and extent of life in the universe For most of human history on Earth, we have ...

A quantum computer is a device that could exploit the weirdness of the quantum world to solve certain specific problems much faster than we know how to solve them using a conventional computer. Alas, ...

Sound needs a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel. Space is a vacuum, lacking the matter to carry sound waves. No sound in space means no echoes. While a near-perfect vacuum, some sounds can be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. One of the most exciting and enticing topics to speculate about is the ...

A popular slogan at climate change demonstrations is a play on humanity ‘not having a Plan B’ after Earth, so for Climate Week, two astrophysicists explain why that is. There are around 300 billion ...

Is there life after death? Theologians can debate all they want, but radiation oncologist Dr. Jeffrey Long says if you look at the scientific evidence, the answer is unequivocally yes. Drawing on a ...

Alan Searleman, a professor of psychology at St. Lawrence University and co-author of the college textbook Memory from a Broader Perspective, explains. In the scientific literature, the term eidetic ...