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Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they're doing.
Recent high-profile instances of fraud in psychology have led some to wonder if there's anything useful about the field at all.
Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.
Some ozone experts seriously doubt the findings.
In special relativity, the statement that two events happened at the same time is meaningless.
A sober look at a wild conspiracy theory that argues the Middle Ages never happened.
"Conceptual isolation" offers an agreeable solution.
Some physicists are besot with the multiverse, but if we can't detect these other universes, how seriously should we take them?
The Industrial Revolution changed music forever, thanks to a combination of technological advances and clever entrepreneurs.
You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R.
The key to its success lies not in its understanding of technology, but in its understanding of human nature.
Questioning isn't just a way to get the right answer — it's also a means for sustaining relationships and creative thinking.
A 5,300-year-old mummy teaches us the global history of tattoos.
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
Psychedelics mess with our prior beliefs, and could help us see what forms these beliefs in the first place.
Symmetries aren't just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.
From hellishly hot planets to water worlds, some distant planets are like nothing in our Solar System.
Scientists find an exoplanet whose strange behavior may lead to the Solar's System hidden ninth planet.
When we rely on the conscious mind alone, we lose; but when we listen to the body, we gain a winning edge.
A new “common-sense” approach to computer vision enables artificial intelligence that interprets scenes more accurately than other systems do.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
DNA molecules are highly programmable.
Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]
Moving the needle forward on psychedelic research.
It’s fundamentally different from space. Here’s how. Here’s a question that most of us have been asked at some point in our lives, “what’s the shortest distance between two points?” By […]
Fintech companies are using elements of video games to make personal finance more fun. But does it work, and what are the risks?
Map shows oldest buildings for each U.S. state – but also hints at what's missing.