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Are conspiracy theories ever true? Here are a few occasions when the government really did what the conspiracy theories claimed.
Intelligent aliens, if they exist in the galaxy or the Universe, might be detectable from a variety of signals: electromagnetic, from planet modification, or because they’re spacefaring. But we haven’t […]
“Earth orbits the Sun in a shooting gallery.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Who needs a hole in the head? As it turns out, lots of people in ancient hospitals did. Why was one society so good at keeping people alive after it opened up their skulls?
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If spacetime is like a fabric, and mass bends it, what flattens it back out again? Matter tells space how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move. That’s […]
On September 27, 1972, scientists performed the first test of Bell’s inequality. God does play dice with the Universe, after all. One of the most puzzling and counterintuitive aspects of quantum […]
Kayne West’s tweet that the United States should amend the 13th Amendment brought renewed attention to a flaw in its language.
How ‘special’ are we for life to have survived and thrived the way it did? While there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, many with Earth-sized planets at […]
Does smoking marijuana make it less likely that couples will have children? A study out of Boston University has arrived at a clear conclusion.
Imagined memory palaces are still used by memory champions and the few who practice the memory arts, but they are best known from Greco-Roman times.
The result validate Einstein on a whole new scale, and pose serious problems for alternative, modified theories of gravity. In 1915, Albert Einstein put forth a new theory of gravity: General […]
We can go to deeper and deeper levels, finding more fundamental quantities as we do. But is there a truly fundamental quantity? What is the Universe, at a fundamental level, […]
And what do we still have left to learn? The original idea of a black hole goes all the way back to 1783, when Cambridge scientist John Michell recognized that a […]
Flat Earth theory has enjoyed staying power since at least the 19th century despite being patently untrue. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the late Carl Sagan, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and other big thinkers will show you how to disprove this bad idea, all without having to take a journey into space.
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, 81, announced on Wednesday his upcoming resignation, marking the end of a three-decade tenure on the high court.
Is science destined to crack the code of consciousness—and how would we even go about it?
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One of the latest things that has people all abuzz is the claim that Buzz Aldrin saw “an L-shaped object” when he went to the moon.rn
Visiting scholar James Timbie says that the artificial intelligence revolution will involve humans and machines working together, with the best results coming from humans supported by intelligent machines.
A fresh take on the decades-old Drake equation incorporates new factors and greater uncertainty, suggesting a high likelihood that humanity is alone in the universe.
When we are asked to check a sex-identity box on a bureaucratic form, what definition of sex is being invoked and to what end?
In 2016, Facebook employees were just 33% female and 2% black; YouTube employees were 30% women and 2% black; Apple employees were 32% women and 9% black; Google employees were 31% women and 2% black.
The flying drone attack marks one of the latest cases in which criminals have been using consumer models to facilitate illegal activity.
Could neuroscience help a Jeffrey Dahmer or a Ted Bundy become… better people?
The fear of robots taking over our economy is unfounded. After all, this kind of disruption happens a lot more often, in the historical sense, than you might think.
How do you stop domestic violence in a country with a 1%-2.5% conviction rate? Pakistan’s first-ever Violence Against Women Center makes it safer for survivors of crime to report and prosecute.
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With a total of 10 black holes detected, what we’ve learned about the Universe is truly amazing. On September 14th, 2015, just days after LIGO first turned on at its new-and-improved […]