One of Apple’s key innovations serves as a psychological breakthrough, as its technology eliminates the isolating feel of headset use.
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Memory errors may actually indicate a way in which the human cognitive system is “optimal” or “rational.”
When you own your career, work becomes more than a means to an end — it becomes a vehicle for growth and happiness.
This research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells in the liquid water ocean hidden beneath Enceladus’s icy crust.
Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.
A new 20-year analysis of over 14,000 psychology studies finds that a study’s media coverage is negatively linked to its replicability.
In general relativity, white holes are just as mathematically plausible as black holes. Black holes are real; what about white holes?
To Einstein, nature had to be rational. But quantum physics showed us that there was not always a way to make it so.
In the 20th century, many options abounded as to our cosmic origins. Today, only the Big Bang survives, thanks to this critical evidence.
It has already been trialed in people and could give us a better way to analyze and stimulate the brain.
U.S. particle physicists recently recommended a list of major research projects that they hope will receive federal funding.
Proponents of transhumanism make big promises, such as a future in which we upload our minds into a supercomputer. But there is a fatal flaw in this argument: reductionism.
A physicist, a psychologist, and a philosopher walk into a bar and discuss a framework for thinking better in the 21st century.
Dr. Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist, who is questioning the very nature of life and how we’re attempting to find it elsewhere.
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Would you confess your crimes to a skeleton with “an unnatural ghastly glow”? One inventor thought you would.
Despite the claims of speed reading apps, it turns out that you actually have to read the book if you want to learn from it.
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
George Orwell got it right: “Never use a long word where a short one will do.”
Leadership evasion might seem like a plan for workplace freedom but it isn’t a good thing — it’s a denial of opportunity.
Before anesthetics, some patients would die of the pain on the operating table.
It’s not a glitch in the matrix. It’s not the Mandela effect. There’s actually a scientific reason you remember things wrong.
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Belief in God and the afterlife increased, while belief in superstition decreased.
The hallucinations that characterize schizophrenia may be due to a “reality threshold” that is lower than it should be.
Music and sounds only seem to reduce pain in mice when played at a specific volume.
To prevent overloading the memory system, the brain may have a mechanism that tosses out certain types of memories.
ChatGPT’s capabilities are astonishing.
Two of the answers add a dimension to physics that doesn’t belong there. Maybe we could call it “astrotheology.”
On-demand learning has become the cornerstone of a modern L&D strategy. Here’s why.
Research sheds light on social behavior of these mysterious predators.