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2023 will see an “arms race” in mixed reality hardware and software. This truly will revolutionize our society.
Named “Supernova H0pe,” it shows how JWST plus gravitational lensing can be used to solve the greatest puzzle facing astronomy today.
Hubble showed us what our modern day Universe looks like. JWST’s big goal was to teach us how the Universe grew up. Here’s where we are now.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
Science and philosophy seem to be separate fields, but philosophical advancements have made the world more accepting of debate and unorthodox ideas.
The only way to support someone’s success is to understand how they define it.
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Their neurons are very different from “normal” people.
Sex, it turns out, isn’t as easy or simple as popular culture might lead us to believe.
Hermann Minkowski called Einstein a “lazybones” with a “not very solid” education. Less than 10 years later, he would eat his words.
The secret ingredient is violence, and it just might indicate that “moonmoons” aren’t as uncommon as most astronomers think.
From questionable shipwrecks to outright attacks, the Sentinelese clearly don’t want to be bothered.
Better cognitive control over our decisions can stave off disappointment in our actions.
You can love a romantic partner, but also a pet, a book, God, or the sound of someone’s voice. We need many more words for love.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
The lack of friendship is particularly a problem for men. But there are easy ways to make friends.
The most iconic, longest-lived space telescope of all, NASA’s Hubble, is experiencing orbital decay as the solar cycle peaks. Here’s why.
The rewards price to get a free cup of hot coffee at Starbucks is going up.
Germans are masters of building cars, cooking brats — and sitting while peeing.
The first recorded brain activity of a person during their death suggests a biological trigger for near-death experiences.
Although many of Einstein’s papers revolutionized physics, there’s one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.
Lawmen and outlaws were often the same people.
It’s called the “hipster effect,” and a study from Brandeis University mathematician Jonathan Touboul explains how it happens.
Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written.
The carnival spirit was in full swing when the priests got wasted and made indecent gestures while dressed like pimps.
The tonal Native American language differentiates words based on pitch and makes Spanish conjugation look like child’s play.
Forensic researchers call such places “limited access environments.”
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you’re a man). But there is a downside.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.