The simulation hypothesis is fun to talk about, but believing it requires an act of faith.
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NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.
More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history’s most interesting experiments in commodity money.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
A 5,300-year-old mummy teaches us the global history of tattoos.
A computer that could decidedly pass Alan Turing’s test would represent a major step toward artificial general intelligence.
Yorkicystis lived during the “Cambrian explosion,” 539 million to 485 million years ago – hundreds of million years before the dinosaurs.
Is there actually anything deserving of the term AI?
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. Interest, and investment, in the carbon-free energy source is heating up.
Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury “only” reaches 800 °F at its hottest. Venus is always hotter, even at night.
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Author A.J. Jacobs explores how voting has changed since the days of the Founding Fathers — for better and for worse.
Move over, IC 1101. You may be impressively large, but you never stood a chance against the largest known galaxy: Alcyoneus.
It may seem as though top performers are always on, but the secret to their success is taking the time to recharge.
As interest rates rise, the “dead pledge” may live up to its name.
A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the “Out of Africa” dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
Humans seemingly have opposing desires to fit in and to be unique. The interplay between these might drive the evolution of fads.
With this unique opportunity to create a totally new world, why does the metaverse already feature such old-world concepts?
Yet, if they only obey the rules that we know, there’s no way to explain why. One of the greatest puzzles in all of physics is that the laws of nature — as […]
Logic puzzles can teach reasoning in a fun way that doesn’t feel like work.
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An artist’s impression of what the fully-deployed James Webb Space telescope will look like from the perspective of an observer on the ‘dark’ (non-Sun-facing) side of the observatory. (NORTHRUP GRUMMAN) […]
We eat 50 billion chickens every year. Is there a better way?
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to “speak.”
Luck doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s about how you position yourself for life’s challenges.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
Previously, only the brightest and most active galaxies could pierce the obscuring wall of cosmic dust. At last, normal galaxies break through.