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Adam Frank, a card-carrying atheist and physics professor, wonders if there might be more to life than pure science.
Once a book is published, who gets to interpret it? Us or the author?
Einstein hated “spooky action at a distance,” but much to his chagrin, quantum mechanics remains as spooky as ever.
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Temporal lobe epilepsy seems to rewire a part of the brain that’s key to storing memories.
The power tower has superior physics but inferior economics.
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Starting just about now, leaves start changing color from north to south, high to low, light to dark.
Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?
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One of the scariest films of the 1970s didn’t set out to be a horror film at all.
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If you had perfect foreknowledge of the blessings and tragedies that will come in your life, would you make the same choices anyway?
Types of therapy are about as different as the people who use it.
Remarkable ‘fan art’ commemorates 50th anniversary of legendary guitar player’s passing.
With a new telescope on the horizon, we reflect on the best pictures of space that came before.
How can we understand mysterious planets like Jupiter? Use giant lasers!
The ten greatest ideas in science form the bedrock of modern biology, chemistry, and physics. Everyone should be familiar with them.
The strangest thing about trying to predict the future is that our only clues lie in the past.
We all employ heuristics to help us deal with the world. But when we make a hasty generalization, we risk making a big error in our thinking.
Successful romantic relationships require desire, but that desire doesn’t have to be sexual.
Mindfulness, detachment, selecting off-time activities with care: Here are evidence-based strategies to achieve healthy work-life balance.
About the project The goal of driving more progress across the world—scientifically, politically, economically, socially, etc—is one shared by many. And yet, debates about the best way to maximize progress […]
Personality is not set in stone. If you don’t like some aspect of it, you can work to change it — “fake it till you make it.”
The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.