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You won’t notice much of a difference unless you’re north of the 55th parallel, though.
A new study outlines why the tobacco and coal industries warrant “corporate death sentences.”
In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser says modern mindfulness is dictated more by market forces than ethics.
What should a black hole look like? Our theoretical predictions are about to meet our first observations. In science, there’s no moment more exciting than when you get to confront […]
There are some undeniable parallels between Jewish history and the Big Blue Boy Scout.
Brett M. Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, one of three women who’s accused him of sexual assault, are due to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Scientists at NASA are currently developing methane-creating robots to overcome this challenge.
It’s one factor that can help explain the religiosity gap.
Researchers find out why some people believe utter BS.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is updated for the 21st century in a new study.
A man paralyzed from the waist down was able to voluntarily control and move his legs with the help of an electrical implant in his spine.
Talking about climate change doesn’t have to be an argument over Thanksgiving dinner. Some people, though maybe not all, can be persuaded.
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration likely violated the reporter’s Fifth Amendment rights when it stripped his press credentials earlier this month.
Our biases, preferences, and ideas of simplicity and elegance can get in the way. Here’s a scientific way to cut through them all. What are the rules governing reality? If you […]
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated 53-year-old Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court, a pick that could establish a solid conservative majority in the court for years to come.
Despite being free to users, Facebook seems to have a monopoly on our speech, our data, and our lives.
Australia’s two largest supermarkets led the ban, which has so far prevented some 1.5 billion plastic bags from entering the environment.
You’d be amazed at what you can learn from even one single pixel. Over the past decade, owing largely to NASA’s Kepler mission, our knowledge of planets around star systems beyond […]
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. will withdraw from the 1987 agreement unless Russia falls back into compliance.
In General Relativity, even space and time themselves aren’t what they seem. Gravity might have been the first fundamental force ever discovered, but in many ways, it remains the least-well understood. […]
Future or extraterrestrial civilizations could create megastructures the size of a solar system.
There’s a high social cost that comes with lighting up.
Theoretical work tells you where to look, but only experiments can reveal what you’ll find. There are fundamental mysteries out there about the nature of the Universe itself, and it’s our […]
How can we use the resources that are already on the Moon to make human exploration of the satellite as economical as possible?
No matter what Martin Rees or anyone else says, physics dictates that the world is safe. The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. An aerial view of […]
Matter from the first few microseconds after the Big Bang.
A new review article makes the case that you can always use it.
Hubble, even at its best, only reveals perhaps 10% of what’s out there. Here’s how we get the rest. When you gaze up at the night sky, through the veil of […]