How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.
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The tech world’s fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned beliefs and rituals that resemble religion — complete with digital deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?
Often viewed as a purely theoretical, calculational tool only, direct observation of the Lamb Shift proved their very real existence.
Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.
National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.
For some reason, when we talk about the age of stars, galaxies, and the Universe, we use “years” to measure time. Can we do better?
From forming bound states to normal scattering, many possibilities abound for matter-antimatter interactions. So why do they annihilate?
The closest star system to Earth, just over 4 light-years away, has three stars and at least one Earth-sized planet. Is it time to go there?
“I was stunned. Here in front of me was the original apparatus through which a new vision of the world was slowly and painfully brought to light.”
The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.
When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.
Did the Milky Way form by slowly accreting matter or by devouring its neighboring galaxies? At last, we’re uncovering our own history.
How technology could change everything we thought we knew about reproduction.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
The world is full of great mysteries. This is one of them.
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Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
A long view of biological survival might point us to new possibilities for finding life elsewhere in the Universe.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
The Universe changes remarkably over time, with some entities surviving and others simply decaying away. Is this cosmic evolution at work?
Just because you can’t experience it doesn’t mean it’s not real.
Wireless charging isn’t just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.
Our desire for recognition at work can lead to perilous ends.
If atoms are mostly empty space, then why can’t two objects made of atoms simply pass through each other? Quantum physics explains why.
“I am free. It’s a lot of effort to be free from the prison that is in your mind, and the key is in your pocket.” – Edith Eva Eger
The truly talented are those who got to where they are despite preconceived expectations.
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?