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Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
Some astrobiologists believe life is rare, while others believe it is common in the Universe. How can we find out which view is correct?
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
Before anesthetics, some patients would die of the pain on the operating table.
When you’re a genius, how do you make ends meet?
These composers channeled the horror of the Holocaust and Hiroshima while honoring those who lived through it.
To clear Scotland’s roads in winter, the local traffic agency employs heavy machinery with punny names. Can you grit and bear it?
But the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope compels us to add, “so far.” Beginning with its 1990 launch, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized our conception of the Universe. This photo of […]
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
As a physician, John Pringle helped reinvent hygiene; as a husband, he destroyed a woman’s life with his abuse.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
If something is “true,” it needs to be shown to work in the real world.
Think therapy is self-centered? Think again.
After 70 years, “The Power of Positive Thinking” remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
An artist’s impression of what the fully-deployed James Webb Space telescope will look like from the perspective of an observer on the ‘dark’ (non-Sun-facing) side of the observatory. (NORTHRUP GRUMMAN) […]
Studies show that feelings of ease and comfort in a given situation are tied to feelings of authenticity.
From succubi to aliens, stories of abductions or other unsettling encounters have been with us for millennia. What explains them?
William Shatner is going to space because Jeff Bezos loves Star Trek.
Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?
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Gravitation, all on its own, can reveal what’s present in the cosmos like nothing else.
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?
The early colonists thought they were being pulled by God into a void left by plague.
Movie soundtracks don’t just help us recall the plot of a film; they also allow us to better understand its meaning.
James Gillray’s ‘plumb-pudding’ caricature is “probably the most famous political cartoon of all time.”
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
Reductionism is a successful way to explain the universe, but it cannot replace experience. This is part of the mystery of life.
One image can give over 100 times the data we now get from Hubble. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, revealed the previously unseen Universe. The most distant galaxy ever […]
Some volunteers performed above chance. They weren’t the psychics.