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Far from acting as the conduits of a benevolent deity, these religious leaders threw the teachings of their own church out of the window.
Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.
We pretend as if economic sanctions are a peaceful way to coerce others into behaving. In reality, they are a potent tool of modern warfare.
“We are biologically programmed to have empathy. It’s something we can’t suppress.”
With this unique opportunity to create a totally new world, why does the metaverse already feature such old-world concepts?
Yes, “the laws of physics break down” at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.
Pandemic-inspired housing innovation will collide with techno-acceleration.
Dr. Tyson explains where we might find aliens, why “dark matter” is a misleading term, and why you can blame physics for your favorite team’s loss.
In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
According to Sigmund Freud, our revulsion at taboos is an attempt to suppress a part of us that actually wants to do them.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here’s why they’re aren’t yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
Humanoid robots are coming, and Ameca is designed to be the ideal platform to study human-robot interactions.
A placebo-controlled study found that oxytocin seems to significantly reduce romantic jealousy among people in intimate relationships.
How the German political philosopher called out Henry David Thoreau on civil disobedience.
The 1998 hit is making a comeback. Stop what you’re doing and watch the original.
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” Steinbeck writes.
The big question isn’t whether the Universe is expanding at 67 or 73 km/s/Mpc. It’s why different methods yield such different answers.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge” is often taken to mean that your conceptions outweigh what’s real. That’s not what he said.
And Dr. Jill Tarter never once lost her composure.
A black swan event is rare but disruptive — and might be predictable.
Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what’s the maximum lifetime for a star?
Music is often labelled a “universal language,” and according to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, there is a good reason for that.
Standard probiotics cannot compare to the diversity that your microbes have.
Two very different ideas, wormholes and quantum entanglement, might be fundamentally related. What would “ER = EPR” mean for our Universe?
You’ve heard of Stephen Hawking. Ever heard of Renata Kallosh? Didn’t think so.
Is hope more realistic than despair? Aquinas thinks so.
Understanding Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning can help you become a catalyst of change.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.