Insight Summaries
Each insight in a few minutes: the point, who made it and why it matters.
Cosmology 27Topic page
- Insight | Time is not universal: how speed and gravity bend it
- Insight | What happens to information that falls into a black hole?
- Insight | Why physics needs such enormous machines to study the smallest things
- Insight | From Einstein's doubts to photographs: how black holes became real objects
- Insight | How to stay skeptical without losing your sense of wonder
- Insight | Getting to another star: what scientists think is actually possible
- Insight | Planets are everywhere, and most look nothing like our solar system
- Insight | Funding, telescope time and the giggle factor: what slows the search for life
- Insight | Is quantum mechanics missing something? Three physicists on what is real
- Insight | What scientists who search for aliens really think about UFOs
- Insight | Reading alien air: why gases are astronomers' best bet for finding life
- Insight | Dark matter and dark energy: what four physicists say we actually know
- Insight | The first alien life may be found close to home
- Insight | Flat Earth, astrology and democracy: why scientists defend skeptical thinking
- Insight | The Higgs discovery was a triumph that left the deepest puzzles open
- Insight | Is the origin of life a fluke? Four researchers weigh the odds
- Insight | Are chatbots minds? Three scientists weigh in on large language models
- Insight | Are we alone? Four scientists split on how common alien life is
- Insight | Free will survives physics, three scientists argue for different reasons
- Insight | Ideas are cheap, measurements are king: how physicists guard against wishful thinking
- Insight | Life, not particles, may be physics' next great frontier
- Insight | Many worlds on trial: one champion and two skeptics
- Insight | Physicalists and critics clash over where consciousness fits in physics
- Insight | Stop waiting for a radio call: smarter ways to find aliens
- Insight | The universe is not a computer, say three scientists
- Insight | The universe's first moments are still a mystery
- Insight | Why a theory of everything may be centuries away, or impossible