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This is a perversion of justice.

When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as “analysis paralysis.” Why? Isn’t choice a good thing?

Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.

Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.

Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?

Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.

You only have 4,000 weeks of life. Use them wisely.

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Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.

With a bigger, better, and more sensitive detector, the XENON collaboration joins LZ and PANDA-X in constraining WIMP dark matter.

Nikolaas Tinbergen’s concept of “supernormal stimulus” explains why humans are attracted to a heightened version of reality.

Frank Herbert’s “Dune” refers to a religious desert people who are desperate for a savior to overthrow an evil empire. Sound familiar?

The idea of gravitational redshift crossed Einstein’s mind years before General Relativity was complete. Here’s why it had to be there.

How does philosophy try to balance having free will with living in a deterministic universe?

Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.

It’s hard to stop looking back and forth between these faces and the busts they came from.

How can we learn from the lessons of the past and build a better future?

Why power generated through nuclear fusion will be the future, but not the present, solution to humanity’s energy needs.

With radio and X-ray data combined, we’re understanding how energy flows like never before. When we look out at the Universe on the largest cosmic scales of all, gravity is the […]

The independent news collective is teaching a new generation of journalists and citizens to spot the stories in plain sight.

It’s insidious and destructive, but there are some things you can do to develop a healthier relationship with material things.

You may be surprised at how your body and brain react to this type of pleasure.

By not taking emergency action to combat climate change, we’re gambling dangerously with the future.

It’s how successful our current theories are. Some 500 years ago, there was one scientific phenomenon that was, without controversy, extremely well-understood: the motion of the celestial objects in the sky. […]

Why do some people still believe that behavior is caused solely by genes or environment? A new paper offers some answers.

Although everyone knows that coal-based energy is a thing of the past, declarations about nuclear power plants somehow do not want to enter into force.

We’ve known this virus was coming. We just didn’t do anything about it.

And after these 10 surprising maps, the Alpine republic will never look the same again.

Social distancing won’t be easy, but science shows us how to make it more manageable.

Trump is #45 but Pence is #48 – and other strange consequences of the curious office of vice president.