With the launch of JPSS-1 coming up this year, everything that NASA Earth science stands for hinges on its success. “There is, then, no water that is wholly of the Pacific, […]
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Scientists film a closeup of DNA replication for the first time, leading to unexpected observations.
The greatest advances in human history have come from science and scientific knowledge. Don’t stop now. “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” […]
NASA announces the details of its mission to the sun, set to launch in 2018.
You wouldn’t know it, but plants are constantly taking in information.
The findings have implications for both men and women.
Hitler is commonly thought to have been an atheist, a claim that’s often used in debates about the perils of atheistic belief on a mass scale. But was he?
A new site offers a way to delete most of your Internet accounts in one go.
Your willpower is a muscle that can be trained. Here is a wealth of scientific information to help you understand your behavior and engineer a successful health and weight-loss plan.
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The US is arguably the most scientifically and technologically advanced society in the world, and yet at the same time the most religious of Western societies.
Above all, we should proceed with the assumption that there is no such thing as an unbiased information source, period.
John Cleese was in super sarcastic form during his recent Reddit AMA.
For any enterprise to succeed, everyone in that enterprise needs to meet certain performance standards. If these performance standards aren’t being met, then the business may fail to achieve the […]
Neuroengineering, defined as the application of engineering principles to neurological problems, then becomes how we engineer our relationship with existence itself.
Millennials, aka the generation of workers born between 1980 and 2000, are a bit different from previous generations. This is the first generation to grow up with the internet, Google, […]
What do our future missions in physics, astronomy, astrophysics and more hold? If you went back in time just 30 years, the world as we it was a completely different place. […]
The smartphone is set to become the hub of your life, online and off, until this replaces it.
All 24 cantons would meet at St Stephen’s cathedral in Vienna
The new data dump by WikiLeaks showcases just how vulnerable our smartphones and smart TVs are to hacking. This first release, part of the larger Vault 7, provides insight into the massive capabilities of the CIA to use popular tech tools as a form of surveillance. Now, what happens when it gets into the wrong hands?
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have connected inattention and giving up on your dreams.
The bad news, the possibility of epidemics. The good news, it may help slow global warming.
A story can literally transport you into a character’s body. But how long does it last?
A proto-consciousness field theory could replace the theory of dark matter, one physicist states.
A college course on how to recognize “bullshit” addresses fake news, memes, clickbaiting and misleading advertising.
The pharmaceutical industry excels at exploiting the free market by making recovery often inaccessible.
Overpopulation is often viewed as a nightmare, but what if it’s a dream come true?
Our brains can do some pretty weird things to us sometimes. These prove it.
A large-scale study of students in Maastricht provides valuable data on student performance.
A comprehensive new study finds that lefties are, in fact, better at advanced math.