Category: Big Questions - Page 56

Our understanding of animal cognition has grown dramatically since the days of Jane Goodall in the 1960s. Great apes, a family of primates…

Large stars and planets in space have intense gravity. The gravity of these large celestial bodies is so strong, that they actually warp the…

If intelligent aliens exist somewhere in the depths of space, then should we see signs of their technology? This question has motivated…

Our understanding of astrophysics states that we should be seeing co-orbiting planets when astronomers look through their telescopes.…

Cancer is one of the greatest challenges of our time. A common misconception about cancer is that it is one disease. There are hundreds of…

You are on one of those trips where the travel is so tedious that even your cell phone looks boring. Not being able to sleep, you look out…

Animals are unable to tell us why they do the things they do, and curious scientists often want to find out. They set up experiments to see…

Nitrogen pollution is a big problem in standing water such as lakes and ponds. The nitrogen comes from many sources, often agricultural…

51 Pegasi b is a roughly jupiter-sized planet around a star pretty similar to our sun. This planet has been part of astronomy conversations…

At the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole. This is normal — at the center of almost every galaxy there is…