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And why social distancing, isolation, and sheltering-in-place are so effective, but only if we do them early enough. In any biological system, if you put a living organism into an environment […]
To prevent torturous experiments on organoids, some are calling for clearer definitions of consciousness.
O.T. Olsen’s gorgeous ‘Piscatorial Atlas’ (1883) describes a world now destroyed and forgotten
The academic performance of American schoolchildren hasn’t budged in two decades, despite billions of dollars in increased funding.
Glenn Albrecht has ideas about how to cope with the effects of a changing world: Invent a new language.
Fionn Ferreira will receive $50,000 for winning Google’s annual student competition.
New technology offers us a look at the green future of aviation and cargo shipping.
The more research conducted on psychedelics, the closer we get to new therapeutic models.
How many other disease-fighting compounds might we find in the ocean?
The most valuable college majors will prepare students for a world right out a science fiction novel.
The summit of Europe’s most active volcano is also the world’s only decipoint.
Why a 400-mile enclosure around the North Sea is not as crazy as it sounds
How does gratitude work its mental magic?
Even physicists sometimes fall for these. For centuries, the laws of physics seemed completely deterministic. If you knew where every particle was, how fast it was moving, and what the forces […]
New report shows the extent of China’s hidden power as the developing world’s creditor.
The neuralnanorobotics are coming.
A glimpse into what a sustainable, inclusive future will look like.
We’ve always used media as a means of framing reality. How will this affect our relationship with VR?
One of Stephen Hawking’s predictions seems to have been borne out in a man-made “black hole.”
The claim comes after two mass shootings over the weekend that killed, in total, 31 people.
Our antipathy toward the natural world is bad. But it’s not too late to change.
Cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman hypothesizes we evolved to experience a collective delusion — not objective reality.
Contrary to popular belief, the Amazon rainforest does not produce 20% of our planet’s oxygen.
How an off-the-radar Nobel Prize brings us ever nearer to finding a major cure.
How do you know you are real? A classic paper by philosopher Nick Bostrom argues you are likely a simulation.
Researchers evaluated the best and worst ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in a recent report.
Many people, including some scientists, fear that the coming 5G WiFi revolution will harm humans. Here’s why that’s unfounded. Over the coming few years, a new set of infrastructure will […]
In modern disinformation warfare, social media is the main battlefield.
Not everything needs a medium to travel through. If we can overcome that assumption, we don’t need the aether at all. All throughout the Universe, different types of signals propagate. Some […]