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Kids’ underdeveloped brains seem to help them acquire new languages with little effort.
Yes, dark energy is real. Yes, distant galaxies recede faster and faster as time goes on. But the expansion rate isn’t accelerating at all.
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Graphical user interfaces are how most of us interact with computers, from iPhones to laptops. But they were once condemned as making students lazy and destroying the art of writing.
Einstein’s relativity overthrew the notion of absolute space and time, replacing them with a spacetime fabric. But is spacetime truly real?
The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?
NASA’s only flagship X-ray telescope ever, Chandra, still works and has no planned successor. So why does the President want to kill it?
Scientists use tripping rats to show that LSD disrupts communication between two key brain regions.
These 10 best practices can help organizations develop high-quality and engaging training videos for employees.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
The stone camel sculptures, seven in total and originally uncovered back in 2018, far predate more famous monuments.
The public sphere should be open to conflict.
From “shell shock” to “combat fatigue,” the wars of the past century have violently illuminated the power trauma can wield over the mind and body.
The Universe is expanding, and the Hubble constant tells us how fast. But how can it be a constant if the expansion is accelerating?
Turns out chitin is quite useful when you need a wrench.
Society-changing ideas form through a three-stage process, argues author Michael Bhaskar.
A joint study by two England universities explores the link between sex and cognitive function with some surprising differences in male and female outcomes in old age.
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What we can learn from our complicated relationship with boredom.
Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.
Saturn’s Iapetus, discovered way back in 1671, has three bizarre features that science still can’t fully explain.
Logic puzzles can teach reasoning in a fun way that doesn’t feel like work.
Researchers at University College London link waist circumference with dementia.
Virtual reality continues to blur the line between the physical and the digital, and it will change our lives forever.