Now that it’s fully commissioned, the James Webb Space Telescope begins its exploration of the Universe. Here are its first science images!
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Although many of Einstein’s papers revolutionized physics, there’s one Einsteinian advance, generally, that towers over all the rest.
Extreme home environments — either very supportive or harshly negligent — tend to produce more sensitive kids.
While weltschmerz — literally “world-pain” — may be unpleasant, it can also spur us to change things for the better.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
The initial study lays the groundwork for another larger, longer phase 2 trial.
The “Clovis First” hypothesis for human settlement of North and South America has just been debunked. Where do we go from here?
What do Remus Lupin, Katniss Evergreen, William Wordsworth, and Usain Bolt all have in common?
What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
It may be possible to give people the tools to withstand difficulty before it attaches to them.
A simple semantic device — invented by a forgotten senator — can help us break “the curse of knowledge.”
The expanding Universe, in many ways, is the ultimate out-of-equilibrium system. After enough time passes, will we eventually get there?
Science and philosophy seem to be separate fields, but philosophical advancements have made the world more accepting of debate and unorthodox ideas.
Cooperation was the first technology.
Billy was a local celebrity in the early 1900s. And he might have been a murderer.
How does the mind interact with the body? Nobody really knows — but these philosophers ventured an answer.
The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.
“I was part of the surgical team that conducted the first pig-to-human heart transplant in a living patient.”
Ideal models of family life have been broken by societal, technological, and cultural shifts — and we need to rethink our options.
50 years ago, Herman Chernoff proposed using human faces to represent multidimensional datasets. It was a good idea in theory — but a disaster in practice.
As the Manhattan Project headed for completion, German attempts to build a nuclear weapon had already been dismantled.
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.
In the 18th century, David Hume argued that we are only motivated to do good when our passions direct us to do so. Was he right?
The common drug is called gabapentin, which is currently used to control seizures and manage nerve pain.