The Cosmic Web

By Becky Ferreira

Galaxies can move with each other across huge distances, and against the predictions of basic cosmological models.

What are intermediate-mass black holes?

By Jake Parks

We've detected puny, stellar-mass black holes. And we've detected giant, supermassive black holes. But what about those in the middle?

White holes: Do black holes have mirror images?

By Bill Andrews

These black hole opposites would spew energy, be impossible to enter, and might even answer some of the universe’s fundamental questions.

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Time is Real; Space is an Illusion

Lee Smolin on the Jim Rutt show.

The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected

By Shawn Radcliffe

Discrepancies in measures of expansion may point to new physics

Mindful Thoughts for Stargazers

By Shawn Radcliffe

Astronomer and Ex-Zen Monk Mark Westmoquette's Book Review

4,000 Exoplanets Mapped in NASA Stunning Video

By Science and Nonduality

In less than 30 years, humanity has discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets

Star Stuff

By Shawn Radcliffe

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin on the Mystery of Stars

A Planetary Sense of Love

By Krista Tippett in On Being

Astronomer Natalie Batalha embodies a planetary sense of what “love” is and means.

The Cosmic Dance

By Sunil Mehrotra

On dark summer nights, away from city lights, I love to stargaze and imagine that I am dancing with the stars.

Multiple Realities Can Happily Co-Exist, Suggests Study

By Shawn Radcliffe

Two realities can exist at the same time, at least in the quantum world, suggests a new study.

One Strange Rock Documentary Offers Much Wonder and a Little Bit of Strange

By Shawn Radcliffe

When it comes to creating documentaries about the grandeur of the Earth, “strange” is a difficult bar to reach.

Events In a Far Galaxy Modify Your DNA

By Stephen Battersby

Billions of years ago, an iron nucleus forged in another galaxy was flung into space at close to the…

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SAND18 US — The Science of Consciousness

With Stuart Hameroff

Stuart Hameroff, co-founder of the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference, follows a brief overview…

Black Holes and the Arrow of Time

By Shawn Radcliffe

In our everyday life, time flows in one direction—forward. When you put a frozen pizza in the hot oven, the pizza heats up. When you hit a baseball, it flies over the wall (if you’re having a good day at bat). When you knock a coffee mug off a table...

The Holographic Principle

By Donald D. Hoffman

The most famous case study in science, prior to Freud, was published in 1728 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society by the English surgeon William Cheselden, who attended Newton in his final illness.

New Theory Says We Are All Multiple Personalities of a Cosmic Consciousness

By Shawn Radcliffe

From the comfortable seat of our bodies (and built-in brains), it’s easy to think that consciousness…

The Flow of Time in a Timeless Universe

By Shawn Radcliffe

If you were to stand outside the universe—outside both space and time—and look at your life, you would see your birth, your death and every moment in between laid out as distinct points.

Idealism and Emergent Spacetime

By Bernardo Kastrup

Scientific American recently published a very interesting essay by philosopher Susan Schneider. It offers an argument against panpsychism—

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Beyond The Appearance of Separation: video with Jude Currivan

Relationship with the Silence

By Science and Nonduality and Paul Mulliner

by Paul Mulliner The conventional explanation for the existence of consciousness is that it’s generated…

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Richard Feynman Lecture: Entropy, Past and Future

Dark Energy May Be Incompatible With String Theory

By Natalie Wolchover

String theory permits a “landscape” of possible universes, surrounded by a “swampland” of logically…

The Astounding Pulse of an Exploding Star

By Science and Nonduality

Peering deep into the core of the Crab Nebula, this close-up image reveals the beating heart of one…