Why do great minds argue for positions we find repulsive? Today, we find out why Robert Nozick was a libertarian.
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A new study on global alcohol consumption, said to be the largest and most detailed of its kind, says the “safest level of drinking is none.”
Why do secular groups often act like churches? The answer is simpler than you think.
Imagine reading by plant light, and glow-in-the-dark trees instead of street lamps. That’s on the horizon thanks to these engineers.
Some stress out. Some read. Some drink.
In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, leading to a revolution in astronomy. But for many purposes, Earth is still the best place to be. When you think about what’s […]
Religious literacy can help us to ‘disagree better.’
There’s still a lot even doctors don’t know about it.
Unless you can make a force that travels faster than the speed of light, a singularity is inevitable. The more mass you place into a small volume of space, the […]
Did you hear the story about how a 100 petawatt laser will finally ‘break the quantum vacuum’? Get the facts. Empty space, as it turns out, isn’t so empty. The fluctuations […]
The field of Artificial Intelligence is pushing back against a newcomer — for good reason.
The heatwave scorching Britain is revealing the outline of ancient buildings – some previously unknown to archaeologists
All humans have a mindful capability for creative thought. Unleashing it is dependent on how we’re taught to go about the creative process.
Psychopathy is a “wildly misunderstood corner of mental health research,” according to the author of a new study on psychopathy and attention mechanisms in the brain.
Researchers find that an ancient chunk of North America is now a part of Australia, shedding light on Earth’s first supercontinent Nuna.
Decades of studies have shown parents to be less happy than their childless peers. But are the kids to blame?
The Parker Solar Probe is the first time a spacecraft will ever get this close to the sun.
Our dark matter searches have yet to yield a robust detection. Could we be looking in all the wrong places? There’s perhaps no more fundamental question to ask than, “what is […]
What can cause a ripple in both space and time? Neutron stars colliding. And what can observe that phenomenon? A two-mile-long laser.
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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 […]
Researchers have just discovered the remains of a hybrid human.
The non-lethal weapons lab of the military unveils a futuristic weapon that can create speech and heat out of thin air dozens of miles away.
The hard part was keeping the list down to ten.
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. […]
According to the study, for every extra day a student experienced sleep problems, they were 10% more likely to drop a course.
The Universe may defy our intuition, but that’s what science is for! If you take a look out at the Universe, and in every direction you look, you see objects rushing […]
Could this be the long-awaited solution to economic inequality?