Light is the fastest-moving thing in the universe. So what would happen if the speed of light were much, much slower? In a vacuum, the speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second (300,000 ...

Despite what you may have heard elsewhere, science isn’t just reading [Neil deGrasse Tyson]’s Twitter account or an epistemology predicated on the non-existence of god. No, science requires much more ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have made a mind-bending — ...

Walk, skip or run -- people travel at many speeds, but how do our minds tell the difference? Researchers in Norway have detected a subset of neurons in rats that serve as the brain's speedometer -- ...

Does our need for speed influence what we see and hear in the media? Short answer yes. And for Science, with a capital S, that may be not such a good thing. “In 1965, two Norwegian social scientists, ...

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