When scientists revealed a fuzzy, fiery circle with a dark hole in the center to the world in April 2019, millions of people froze. It was the first image of a black hole—an object that, by definition, is impossible to…
Our contemporaries like to say that “there are almost no knights left.” As if there is something bad in this. For some reason, the mass consciousness idealizes these people. In the imagination, they appear noble, the meaning of their life…
Like Soviet citizens, man's four-legged friends endured all the “delights” of the regime of the time, along with the country itself. They, too, were subjected to repression, expelled abroad, tormented by starvation, and used as cannon fodder during the war.…
The style of responses you receive to technical questions depends as much on the way you ask them as on their complexity. This guide will teach you how to ask questions in a way that increases the likelihood of receiving…
A depiction by an artist of the small, frigid body Chiron, which journeys around the sun between Saturn and Uranus and could be forming its own band structure.(Image credit: Observatório Nacional/MCTI/Chrystian Pereira) In a cosmos where shifts typically play out…
“Before I was born, my mother suffered a tragedy. She couldn't eat anything except oysters, washed down with ice-cold champagne. If people ask me when I started dancing, I answer—in the womb. Perhaps because of the oysters and champagne.” The…