Thinking at cosmic and subatomic scales requires plenty of math—or some visual metaphors.

Physics - it’s all around us, everywhere, so it’s no wonder why fun facts on physics vary in their intensity. These facts touch upon the surface tension of the gelatin we eat and literal black holes ...

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I've been intrigued by the recent interest in "alternative facts." For there to be a set of alternative facts, there must be another set of facts from which it is altered. The interesting question is ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

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